"A Tabloid Experience" by John Simpson

The text "A Tabloid Experience" written by John Simpson deals with his experiences of the press. This story is structured in two parts. The first part is the introduction which describes the situation of John Simpson. Without these ten lines it would be more difficult to understand the following text. The second part from line 11 to the end of the text describes his experiences of the Gulf War of 1991. You can structure the second part, too. In the first paragraph (lines 11 to 41) Simpson is lying in hospital and is visited by journalists. His joke changes the situation. He becomes a target and gets called hypocrite. All the time he is the hero of the war, but now he is the bad man. In the second paragraph he explains how tabloids work. They are having spotted the target. The third paragraph deals with the ex-wife, who is a stereotypical "bitch". The fourth paragraph gives some example for stereotypes. In the fifth and last paragraph we can read the quintessence, which says we do believe the written lie. The narrative perspective is the first person because John Simpson tells about his live. He is the narrator and called first-person-narrator. This narrator has only a limited point of view because he knows not everything.