Editorial nr 2

The Guardian view on refugees and the EU: time to sort the leaders from the led

Words used

hounded

refugee- 14x

migrant- 2x

Now this article mostly aims at creating a sense of empathy towards the refugees to make the reader feel sorry for them and to help the reader see how the EU is being fairly selfish. This also explains why the word 'migrant' is only used twice whereas the word 'refugee' is use 14 times. 'Migrant' almost seems as an offensive term to use hence 'refugee' is used more often. This shows that The guardian sees the refugees as people and believes that they should be given another chance. This is also backed up by the use of the word 'hounded' which paints a picture in the readers head of the police being the bad guys. Again, developing that sense of empathy. This way the guardian targets their audience, which is the left wing as it goes against the EU and their principles. It stands against Europe's fear of their culture being changes by the mass amounts of refugees coming in. This is nicely summed up in the last paragraph where it states that the 'large' numbers of refugees coming into Europe  are still less than a third of the 1% of Europe's total population (500 million people). Hence stating that the reason of worry amongst politicians is pointless.