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“TV, public school and Ryan's fall” by Amelia Hill and Kamal Ahmed is an article published in the British newspaper The Observer on May 11, 2003, following the expelling of teenager Ryan Bell from a private school where he had been enrolled by a television company.

Type of article

There are different types of newspaper articles. They can be news reports, simply rendering an event, editorials or opinion articles, analyses, portraits, interviews or cover stories.

“TV, public school and Ryan's fall” falls in the category of cover story. The text does not simply report on what happened to Ryan Bell. Instead, it analyses the causes that brought about his expulsion from school, according to various experts and persons connected with his case. Consequently, the article is rather long and includes several opinions on Ryan’s situation.

Nevertheless, the text follows the structure of the article genre: heading, subheading, introduction, main body and conclusion. In what follows, we will look at each...