Research by Kress and Trew is more linguistically oriented. Trew (in Fowler et al., 1979) analyses contrasting reports in different British national dailies, and the development over time of reports and editorials about a single event. Kress and Trew (1978) make independent use of a methodology similar to that developed here to study the London Sunday Times' rewrite of a crucial industrial text. Kress (e.g., 1983) discusses the ideological bases of journalistic rewriting of news, and compares different reports of one story in two Australian papers. This research all involves close work on the language of news reports, and is strongest when it contrasts actual texts (Bell, 1977, p. 266 ff.). At its best, such analysis can show convincingly how language is a vehicle of covert interpretation in supposedly neutral reporting