- Research -

For this brief we were assigned a task to purchase a newspaper from Tuesday 22nd of October. I purchased the Daily Star as the front page story looked very intriguing. The article is mainly about a grandad called John Catlin who was bitten by the glorified false widow spider that has been spreading across the UK in the past few months.

After reading the article I found it very shocking and interesting. However I did notice that this man was bitten over a year ago yet it is only now his story has been published in newspapers, the images that are also used to represent the spiders differ from the front page and page 5 which is confusing, this makes me question if the newspaper is using a legitimate story. It also claimed that John was diagnosed with cellulitis: a severe skin infection, yet there is not actual evidence that it was caused by a false widow. After doing further research into Cellulitis I found that when it gets infected and goes septic thats exactly what happens to your leg which is shown in the picture. Again no actual evidence that the false widow was the cause to this.