Women’s magazines like the ‘Woman’s Day’ have very colourful inviting covers that are always of happy good looking people. There is a lot of emotional articles in the ‘Woman’s Day’, they cover a lot of stories about babies and mothers, warm and fuzzy stories. Woman’s magazines are all about celebrities and what they are doing and their children. Women’s magazines are not always based on fact, something’s they are written by rumour and speculation and they also use pictures to write articles. Women’s magazines like ‘Woman’s Day’ feature a lot of advertising for women’s luxury products such as foundation and lipstick. There is also always a fashion section that show the latest trends and where to buy the clothes and for how much. Women’s magazines are mostly about physical appearance they have a health and beauty section showing you how to look a certain way and how to lose weight. “Spoilt Suri’s adult world” by ‘Woman’s Day’ is an article about Tom and Katie Cruise’s daughter Suri and the spoilt life she leads. This article isn’t an important news story it is more of a scandal story about a celebrity family. The magazine is criticizing the parenting skills of Katie and Tom Cruise. This particular article is written from photos of the mother and the toddler, also from what public witnesses saw. They speculate from the pictures “Suri looked so tired” and what ‘insiders’ say “Suri never hears the word no”. News websites such as “NZ Herald” display factual news stories up to date. It features the biggest stories around the world and nationally. The articles on this site are more news stories opposed to articles in magazines, they are written more on facts unlike some stories in women’s magazines. They inform us. There are pictures included in the news stories but just one or two not as many or on a large scale like magazine articles do. “Foodstuffs axes 100 jobs” by NZPA, is a news story that informs us of Foodstuffs Wellington making more than 100 people redundant in the lower North Island as part of a restructuring to save $4 million a year. This article only has one photo attached to it which is typical of news sites. This news story is based on facts and figures showing the number of workers affected and dollars they will save. This article doesn’t speculate it is just hard cold facts.
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