The Paradise Papers story coverage

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The Paradise Papers story coverage

On Monday the 6th November, the main headlines covered leaked documents revealing the financial details of the super-rich. It outlined how many were allowed to keep money outside of the UK in order to avoid paying tax. 

The Guardian: Queen's cash invested in controversial retailer accused of exploiting the poor.
The words that are highlighted in the Guardians headline gives us the impression that the Queen was involved in exploiting the poor, this leaves a bad impression on the Queen, as she isn't paying taxes fairly. The leader of the country should be paying taxes to help the lower of the society. 

 Daily Mail: Queen dragged into £10M offshore tax row.
The words highlighted in the Daily Mails headline makes us believe that the Queen is the victim and she didn't have a choice about where her money was kept.


The Guardian and the Daily Mail have both approached this story differently. The Daily Mail uses the word 'dragged' to make the Queen sound like she was a victim and that she was forced into the £10M offshore tax row. The reader will think that it is not the Queens fault and that she had no choice about where her money was kept. The reader may also feel sympathetic towards the Queen due to how she was represented in this headline/ news story. In The Guardian newspaper the headline 'Queen's cash invested in controversial retailer accused of exploiting the poor' indicates that the Queen is guilty of 'exploiting the poor' and she knew exactly what she was doing when she was protecting her money from the government's taxes. The Guardian uses an image of the Queen from the back of a coin, this may be because this photo of the Queen is when she was younger and she has no facial expressions, so that the reader cannot feel sympathetic to her or anger towards her. Newer images of the Queen show that she is elderly, and more people are sympathetic towards elderly people.
The Guardian spent a number of days publishing a series of articles focusing on this Paradise Papers story. They have done this because they want to tell their readers that there are multiple people who have exploited the poor by keeping their money in an off-shore account (where it will not be as highly taxed). The use of the yellow colour tells the reader that it is the same story. Each day the story gets shorter and shorter until there isn't very much to talk about on the topic. They have done this to make their audience aware of the impacts of putting your money into off-shore accounts. This may affect the newspapers political ideology and news value because they are essentially degrading celebrity's social statuses and ruining some of their reputations.
The majority of the newspapers are mainly non biased towards the story that was covered. The Daily Mail is a little bit biased, as they try to get the message across that the Queen was a victim and had no idea it was happening. The guardian shows biased in their headline as they get the message across that everyone who took part was exploiting the poorer people, they have done this to show that the Queen is not a victim and she knew where her money was so she could avoid the amount of tax the UK has on the money. The telegraph blamed no one and was very non-biased. They have done this so that more people will want to read their story, as they will know that there will be no biased comments in it.

The online editions of this story contains images and connected stories. They have done this to offer more information to their readers. Allowing the reader to access more stories that are related to the story or that are similar to get the audience to read more of their stories. Some of the stories are for premium users so you have to pay to access them. The Guardian uses a yellow theme on this particular story to show that is is all part of the same story. They use the yellow to show the reader where the story, every time they include the story on other days of the paper.

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