Online News: Different Opinions

The Guardian:
Apocalypse it is then. Not now, but probably next week-


  • The article talks about Theresa May and Brexit.
  • The journalist is Marina Hyde, looking at her other publications she seems to mainly focus on politics as her other articles released in March are about the EU, Brexit and Theresa May.
  • within the article there are many different hyper links, most of them are to different people, quotes or other interesting topics/ facts that people might want to find out about.
  • There is both a photo and a video used in the article, the picture is seen at the top of the page and it shows Marlon Brando and the video is of Theresa May speaking about Brexit.
  • At the bottom of the page there are many different other stories with their links, some of them link as they are also to do with politics or to do with similar people, although there are some stories that don't link to the article at all, for example, there is an article about poor children no being allowed to play on the play ground.
  • There is two adverts on the whole page and one is at the very bottom where not many people are likely to see, the adverts vary, one is about jewellery whereas the other is about jobs at The Guardian, or what looks like a dating website the Guardian made called 'The Guardian Soulmates'.
  • At the top of the article just below the picture it allows the readers to easily share or send the article to their friends or to the public, also if you highlight any of the words it allows you to share them, this way people can quote from the article and share it online or reference to it. The article has been shared or referenced to on Facebook 8,585 times and people have commented on it 1,001 times, the comments are mainly peoples opinions of politics or The Guardian.

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