World Issues: Comparing two articles – Colin Powell at the World Summit

Recently many of the worlds leaders met in Johannesburg for the reality summit. It was called to mark the tenth anniversary of a meeting in Rio de Janeiro which managed to set up a number of important environmental agreements. Unfortunately the USAs president, George Bush did non attend but sent his secretary of state, Colin Powell instead. There were 65, 000 delegates and 174 countries were represented. The first earth summit, hosted in Rio de Janeiro (1992) managed to set up several agreements, based on the environment and the future shape of orbicular industrial development.It set up an agenda called agenda 21. This agenda set out the way that planet-wide environmental improvements could be achieved if local authorities made more of a priority of issues such as recycle and energy saving. Now looking back at the summit from 10 years in the future, I personally think it was a failure, nothing counts to have changed. Problems such as pollution and energy conservation just seem to have gotten worse. Although things like recycling have begun to grow in some countries e. g. UK. The Articles The sun hold states facts about what happened when Colin Powell was eing heckled. It has little culture about what was actually discussed. It could have stated the history tardily the summit and the reasons for the heckling.The Times article is more in depth. It goes behind the summit and states its background sequence still stating information about Colin Powells heckling and also the achievements of the summit e. g. the agreement, aimed at reducing world pauperisation and protecting the environment. It also has statements from the some of the world leaders such as on that point should not be any more such mega-summits which was ade by the Prime Minister of Denmark and the president of the European Union. canvas the two articles, I find that The Times article is more detailed than The insolate article. Also on that point are the differences in language which you f ind between a tabloid (Sun) and a broadsheet (Times).The Sun seems to deal with the main issue of Colin Powells heckling while The Times deals with the summit as a solid with Colin Powells heckling included. The writers approach the article in different ways because of the types of newspaper they work for (e. g. tabloid) and perhaps there ersonal opinion on the subject. The Sun article is based more on the interesting parts of the calamity with Colin Powell and also has hints of the writers opinion e. g. agreement was branded inadequate. While The Times article deals with issues of the summit and includes information about Colin Powells heckling. e. g. Powells speech made it clear that the Bush administration has written off the planet both articles are biased but The Sun is more than The Times.The Sun seems to be pro-America which means most of its comments seem to make America seem in the right and are trying to create sympathy for Colin Powell. save The Times is very critical of America Bush has written off the planet even though it is critical, it does not mean that its against America but it does seems to nit-pick. To draw this to a close, I think that The Times article and The Sun article expressed different opinions on these events. several(prenominal) points were bad while others were good. I trust that The Times article is the best due to its contrast of opinion and in depth information of the summit.I think that the Johannesburg summit like its predecessor was a failure even though some agreements were made. Some of the delegates branded the agreements inadequate therefore not everyone liked it. Also one of the biggest tasks (America) did not seem to assimilate much notice and as I stated have written off the planet. The main problem with putting agreements into practice is that perhaps some countries will adopt a scheme but not all countries will so the problem goes on and that some of the people on these countries will not do the extra work required to make it work (e. g. Recycling)