News:  Analysing the language of newspapers.

Daily mail

Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi as the fourth hurricane to hit the United States this year.
The storm flooded roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages.
As the storm moved northeast into Alabama, Nate's maximum sustained winds dropped to 35mph, prompting the National Hurricane Center to end its tropical storm warnings for the region.
Mississippians, particularly in the Gulf Coast area where the storm made its second landfall, are beginning to recover from the storm, photographs show. 
The storm made landfall in Mississippi last night as a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest designation by the center. 
Only a few hours earlier, its winds had been blowing at 70 mph but appeared to lack the devastating punch of its recent predecessors.

Guardian

Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the US Gulf coast before weakening rapidly on Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by hurricanes that hit the southern US and Caribbean in recent weeks.Nate was the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005. It quickly lost power, diminishing to a tropical depression as it pushed north into Alabama and towards Georgia with heavy rain. It was a category 1 hurricane when it came ashore outside Biloxi early on Sunday, its second landfall after initially hitting south-eastern Louisiana on Saturday evening.

Analysis

The Daily mail emphasizes the recency of the news "last night", "few hours earlier", they do this to make sure the reader knows that it is happening in the present and is affecting people when the new story was reported. Dramatic language is used such as "devastating punch", "catastrophic damages " and "warnings". The dramatic language sensationalizes the the hurricane and would entice emotional readers, it also hyperbolised how bad the damage was by creating a field of violent words.This creates a dramatic tone which emotional readers would like. The daily mail has missed out facts such as the hurricane is the first one to make "landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005" and that it "pushed north of Alabama and Georgia". These are facts which were included in the guardian which has a more factual tone to inform their readers on the news and past history of the accident. The daily mails agenda is to create a dramatic take on the hurricane so it seems more "catastrophic" then it actually is this makes the story less trustworthy then the guardian. Through using dramatic language the daily mail has created a mostly informal tone but has woven in some basic facts. The Guardian doesn't use any dramatic language but does give there reader a basic factual overview of the hurricane. News stories on natural disasters are not usually stories where u can have a bias but overall both news stories defanatley have different ways of writing news stories which reflects the overall tone of all of their other news stories.

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