... As with most newspaper articles, this article is designed to be informative but also persuasive. As the Mail is a slightly right-wing publication, the journalist expects it's readers to have conservative views so the article is written in favour of the paratroopers to attract the right readership. The majority of the article focuses on the paratroopers disgust at the release of a new forensic report by Lord Saville. There is a brief sentence about what the report is actually about followed by two paragraphs about the reactions of the paratroopers. Therefore the quality and quantity of the information in this source is low. It only puts across one side of the story, the only quotes coming from either the paratroopers themselves or the Conservative MP for the paratrooper's base, whose information is naturally going to be biased in favour of the paratroopers. The only section of the article which seems ...

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