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story which is the influence of Mr. Alito's father. The remaining paragraphs go into more detail then an online news source would: There is information about how Mr. Alito will use his father's touch in his own political world as he answered questions from Democrats. There is also a reference to Mr. Alito's father as "a larger-than-life hero in the story his son presents to the public." (Kirkpatrick, David D. "Court Nominee Presents Father As Role Model." The New York Times, 5 Dec. 2005: A1). With more details and more paragraphs about different things pertaining to Mr. Alito's relationship with his father, the story has a more touching approach. The story has more poignancy that affects the reader, because the reader has took the time to read the story.

The paragraph structure and content of a story will not only affect the strength of a newspaper story, quotes used in a newspaper story will as well. Quotes from the Samuel Alito story such as: "Obviously, Judge Alito is very proud of his father,' Mr. Schmidt said. What a great American story, that the son of an Italian-American immigrant who came to America as a young boy, searching for opportunity, that the American dream that compels so many millions of Americans has been realized in the nominations of his son to be a justice of the Supreme Court.'" (Kirkpatrick, David D. "Court Nominee Presents Father As Role Model." The New York Times, 5 Dec. 2005: A19) give the reader a more humanistic approach to the story. Quotes likes these would not be in an online news story because an online news story would not go so far into detail. Online news is more factual and has fewer quotes because of the space of the story and the attention span of a typical online news reader.

Different types of media also depend on their formality or how one form is more elite then the other. "As news consumers, we are very aware that different media regard different things as news. A mass circulation tabloid such as the British Sun covers different stories from those in elite readership papers like The Times or Independent. Still more obvious are the contrast in presentation. The popular' and quality' British dailies look entirely different from each other-in design, typography, use of photographs and other visual techniques" (Bell, Allan The Language of News Media Oxford UK & Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1991). Even though some of the British dailies have news like the New York Times, they are not on the same level. The British dailies,

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