Dylan Nobel Prize Essay

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This Essay will be covering the news report about musician Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. The two news sources that have been researched are the metro newspaper and TRT World video on youtube. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for 'creating new poetic expressions within the American song tradition '(Ritter. K, 2016). This is written for the general public of both Britain and America
The purpose for this story in the Metro newspaper is to give the public of Britain the knowledge that Bob Dylan won the Nobel peace prize for literature of 2016. This has been done by a small article on page 25 of the newspaper. One of the facts used in the newspaper is 'Dylan 's songs Blowin ' in the wind and The Times They Are A-Changin ' became anthems for the US anti-war and civil rights movement of the 1960s. '(Ritter. K, 2016) this fact has been used to give the reader the understanding of how important Dylan 's songs were during that time. It also gives the reader a positive reaction when reading this section of the article.
On the other hand during the video interview with Simon McGregor-Wood. He does not mention this fact. However he does say that Dylan 's sound, mood and words it would seem to play close to the hearts of those in social unrest
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The newspaper is for all ages. Also the newspaper can be more read as it is free on public transport.The newspaper covered facts in a positive nature giving its readers insight and curiosity into who Bob Dylan is and what his work is about. The newspaper covered facts in a positive nature giving its readers an insight and curiosity into who Bob Dylan is and what his work is about. On the other hand the interview started with a negative response to Bob Dylan. It can be switched off if the viewer chooses to not watch it. Also the interview gave hardly any facts it was mostly based on opinion which the viewer may not want to

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