In today's news media era, visual communication is the fundamental tool used in order to communicate with the audience. It is much more common to see newspapers with compelling and engaging visuals rather than words.
The New York Post illustrated to the left would be a great example of this. At first glance, the reader notices the crowd of people holding up their signs eventually leading to the title. Rather than reading words, the photo presents the argument that this conflict is very much real and much more serious. The words are not necessarily vital in helping the audience understand what is going on while the picture paints the argument and idea itself.
Unlike the previous newspaper, the photo is used to back up the texts. The reader cannot really understand the connotation behind the illustration without reading the texts. The argument is illustrated verbally whilst the illustration "participate[s] with written language to create meaning" as Mary Rist says in her Visual Rhetorics and Viewer Empathy novel. Both newspapers use their visuals as a means to indicate the severity of the topic.
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