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ost or some of the following features.
Firstly, news should be timely since the new and fresh information can give rise to the audience’s interest and attention. Furthermore, news is unusual since disasters (eg.Wen Chuan Earthquake),wars(eg. Iraq War), epidemics(eg.H1N1 Flu) are the focuses of news.
Secondly, news is supposed to influence or lead people’s life to some extent. News is written about some prominent individuals like present, governor or business leaders and other peculiar ones. Their words and activities are reported to the public and thus that influence their life and thoughts.
Although a piece of good news has a great deal of features such as interesting, informative, entertaining, news, in a word, should either inform, or to entertain or to persuade the audience or readers.
1.2 Features of broadcasting & newspaper
In a general sense, media can be divided into two groups-print media and broadcasting media. Newspaper belongs to the former while radio and TV are parts of the latter.
It is universally recognized that newspaper and broadcasting news belong to journalism and both of them are the main methods for people to acquire information. However, they carry substantial differences.
Firstly, newspaper is printed and belongs to written form. Newspaper holders can read it for times if they are interested in it or cannot understand at the first time. Thus the newspaper journalists write precisely and meticulously with the help of pictures and graphics to acquire readers while radio news is fleeting and goes in one ear and out the other one. Therefore, broadcasting news must be easily understandable and most broadcasting news employs conventional style and colloquial forms. Moreover, the broadcasting news often follows a clearer organization pattern then that of newspaper for the same story and thus the audience of broadcasting news can get the points much easily than newspaper readers.
Secondly, broadcasting news is shorter than newspaper story. Since people’s attention span is limited, broadcasting news should not be too long to avoid tiresome and boredom. Thus, the length for broadcasting is limited to several minutes. Moreover, broadcasting news usually offers a quick summary of what is happening at present. Broadcasting news is more immediate and timely than newspaper since news on radio or TV is updated moment by moment while newspaper news day by day.
1.3 The layout of this thesis
This thesis is composed of four chapters. The first chapter is an introduction, which is mainly dealing with introduction to features of news and general differences between newspaper news from broadcasting news. The second chapter offers the theoretical background of this thesis from two perspectives, media writing and stylistics. Chapter three is the center of the whole thesis. It will analyze and compare from three levels, lexical level, grammatical level and semantic level by employing some typical examples. Conclusions will be drawn in the last chapter.

Chapter 2 Theoretical Background

第二章理论背景

2.1 Theories of media writing
With media’s rapid development, numerous media theories come up recently. Among them, Djik in 1985 published the book named Discourse and Communicat