New Media II

While watching both the news and then reading print media to follow, you may notice a few similarities and differences in the way the stories are brought to the publics attention. The top country stories at the time I observed were the severe storms taking place in the Southwest, with more severe to come by the weekend. They also followed up with noting the severe storms hitting Northern Europe. The other story that seemed to be of importance were the Chinese missle tests, which blew out a weather satellite and raised concerns about the problem of space junk, as well as the fact that China may also be able to hit US communication satellites.

Now, following up with the New York Times the next morning, a few things could be noted. Television is able to show pictures and footage of actual events, as well as the fact that they are broadcasted by an anchor, and can be made to sound of mroe importance that way. Print media relies on words and gripping text to catch the publics attention. When watching the news, they did in fact show footage of the storms and such to convey the urgency of the problem, whereas the New York Times used bold text and a selected vocabulary to convey their point.

I would have to say I was more captivated by the television broadcast, but thats just the advantage that broadcast journalism has over print, making print journalists have to work a little harder to get a story across.