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What is included or missed out of the story? Can you explain this?
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Is there any bias?
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The average number of words per sentence is 25.4. The word 'predatory' to describe spacey's behaviour is very fitting to the story and is also reasonably emotive because people who have experienced being around people who possess these behaviours could feel very emotional towards the story. The theatre that the allegations have been sent to have said that it "truly apologises" which could provide comfort and closure for some of the victims because somebody recognises how bad this is and have been the bigger person in recognising what they feel they had done wrong.
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The news article has mainly focused on what the Old Vic have said about it and seem to have missed out on the backstory of the allegations for readers that may not have read all of the Spacey stories before. The article does have many quotes however but still have not included a majority from Kevin Spacey himself.
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The article is formal. It is formal because the topic is very serious and not funny in any way. it also reaches out to many victims which is why there cannot be any jokes involved as it could hurt them emotionally and cause even more uproar. Nothing in the article is funny because again it is a serious and horrible topic to talk about where light heartedness may not be appreciated.
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Personally, i see no bias purely because it is an informative article and is just really telling the audience facts. The Old Vic theatre do not even show a single trace of bias and took all of the responsibility for their actions.
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There are two pictures of Spacey in one of which he is smiling. This could certainly be a dig at him because the situation that he has found himself in the middle of is really not something to be smiling about. The other picture looks quite invasive possibly signalling that he was invasive on people's lives and personal space and that is why he is in this sticky situation. He also looks like he is quite smug in this picture which resembles how he feels as he pretty much got away with all of these
allegations. It also has a board with "THE OLD VIC" written on it. The third pictures is of the Old Vic which is where the allegations were sent and where Spacey was its artistic director for 11 years.
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The beginning of the headline is just "Kevin Spacey" because the newspapers know that people will see his name and will want to read on as he is an elite person and the story has been continuing for quite a while. They do this because they know that by using news values people will be very interested. It is also informative because it is telling people about something new that they didn't know about.
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