Wednesday, January 24, 2007

WCAX Online Vs News Broadcast

As discussed in class on Tuesday, it does in fact seem as though stories are almost taken straight off of the teleprompter and pasted to the internet. For example, when reading these stories they are often not put into proper paragraphing, using single sentances as one paragraph. They're also not worded as a story in the newspaper would be, as there is no real introduction or closing to the text. It seems as if they just plainly post the things that the broadcasters read off of the screen. It's not so much persuasive writing, but just plain facts and quotes. Just enough to get the story across.
More obvious, there is generally a lack of graphics and footage. It is possible to in fact create a link to watch the broadcast, but they failed to do so here.

1 comment:

danprof said...

Good analysis, Chelsey.