Compare and Contrast 2 Great Newspapers - New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Speed, immediacy, global reach- the Internet provides vast, new opportunities for the distribution and reception of news. I had spent the past two weeks, Feb. 13- Feb. 28, observing the front-pages of CNN and Fox News online. Because both are powerful news networks, I focused my attention on the top-featured stories displayed on both web pages, and if stories were featured on both, did the news networks portray the stories similarly or differently. A lot of my attention was also focused on the diversity of both CNN and Fox News. I reviewed diversity by analyzing the difference in headlines, content throughout the story and the writers and reporters.

For many years, American journalism has been remarkably different from other parts of the world, particularly Europe. The European style

Comparing two newspaper articles, one from a tabloid and one from a broadsheet will convey the different techniques that tabloids and broadsheets use to present stories. Media in general, aim to inform and interest the audience which consist of many different types. Diverse emotions and ideas are created by the media; foremost tabloids. Tabloids are papers like ‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘The Express’ and ‘The Star’. In contrast to these are broadsheets like ‘The Times’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Broadsheets are often known as the ‘quality press’ being more informing and formal in the manner they convey information and news stories.

The timeliness of the news article is demonstrated as it was made before the featured article (reported the South Carolina house voting which came first before the Governor signing the bill). The headline, lead, and the article itself have no emotions/tone when read (headlines, the overall article, and the lead are to be neutral when read by the reader). The lead answers strictly the 5 Ws and how it doesn't feature a list, a then-now, and other methods of writing leads for features articles. The structure of the news article utilizes an inverted pyramid. The more important information is featured at the beginning of the article (the amount of essential information decreases). For example: the writers discuss the ruling of the South Carolina House of Representatives within the first paragraph of the article (“The final vote in the State House of Representatives, 94 to 20, was well above the two-thirds majority required to move the bill to the desk... in Charleston.”) and decreases as one goes through the article. The last paragraph does not tie back tie back into the lead (another feature for news article). “It means the world to us,” Mr. Rutherford said, “that we can move a symbol of division off of our front yard.” has no affiliation to the lead as the lead did not state the impact/feedback of what took place.

Also one big difference I came across is the language in the Washington post article were more urgent compared to the other 2 newspaper companies. Also, the Washington post articles were significantly longer than the other 2 newspaper companies. The media portrayal of the DC Sniper differed based on the newspaper company. The Washington Post uses quotes from the citizens to show the portrayal of the DC snipers. Also, in the Washington Post articles they portray the snipers as monsters doing these senseless acts of violence on the community making all the citizens live in fear. The other two newspaper companies mainly just talk about the events. They don't go into very much detail about the snipers

When comparing both articles’ online webpage, you can see the four main principles of design being followed: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. The contrast can be seen in both articles with their black wording against a white background. The repetition is evident in the fact that the same fonts and colors are used throughout the website and all of its articles, respectively. Alignment can be seen from both articles having their main article on the left, advertisements at the bottom, and latest news on the right. Finally, proximity can be seen in both articles when they group similar topics together and have links to different topics. Along with the webpage being formatted identically, the article itself is also formatted in a similar method. Both articles have a big, bolded headline that attracts the attention of the reader, use quotes from people involved, and present pictures as proof. In the Associated Press article, the author included quotes from the vice president of flight reliability for SpaceX and included a picture of the SpaceX rocket (Dunn). In the article from The Onion, the author included quotes from the president of Planned Parenthood and a picture of the “abortionplex” along with it’s floor plan. The Onion’s article obviously fabricated the quotes and pictures. One thing that sets the two articles apart, however, is that The Onion included the volume and issue of paper to create a greater sense of reliability. This explains why people mistake the article as a legitimate piece of journalism. The next step is to explain how the author uses the genre of journalism to incorporate the genre of satire.

They both present similar ideas and versions of the events, with similar biases. One cannot look at the papers and say, “oh yes, this one was definitely directed at the upper class, while this one’s intended audience is clearly the working class.” There really is no distinction there. Under pressure of choosing the ‘better’ paper and coverage – one would have to say The Globe wins. Both are deeply biased, but at least The Globe does not try to hide its biases and one-sided opinions behind thin veils of exclusive reports from mystery sources and reporters like The

The first article is a story done by National Public Radio, a non-profit media organization that is

These articles are in the political genre and they don’t do much to break away from their genres, but they are different from each other. Typically, in these types of genres, the article is written from a politically biased perspective. If the writer is more conservative, they’ll write with right-winged views; the same thing if it were written from a liberal point of view. With these articles, you can

There were distinct ideological beliefs presented in the articles. MSNBC is very progressive and sees the Democratic party as infallible. In their narrative Republicans are evil, stupid, and racist. If Obama says "jump", MSNBC is already falling off the bridge. CNN tries to present itself as unbiased but fails. It is not an utter failure. At some points the facade of neutrality is believable. But their pro-establishment bias is strong. I felt like they preferred Democrat's; but in a Republican presidence the roles may reverse. Finally Fox News i very conservative and pro-Republican. While CNN and MSNBC treat Obama as a strong leader, Fox contrasts this with depictions of a weak man. Fox was the oppisite extreme of MSNBC. It really just felt

Throughout the day on October 9, 2017, The New York Times website covered a variety of stories, featuring numerous articles concerning the Las Vegas tragedy and gun violence in the United States, as well as pieces highlighting President Trump’s declination of the Iran Nuclear Agreement and cutback of employer birth control coverage. The outlet also published stories regarding Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations and Steve Mnuchin’s $800,000 travel expenses. Across that Friday, the digitally-initiated HuffPost focused its attention on political issues, from Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and Russia’s collusion to disputes between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. Similar to The New York Times, HuffPost featured stories on the

A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles In this essay I will be comparing two articles taken from local

(USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the

The New York Times has a strong brand presence, name and equity in the United States. According to Michael Hirschorn, contributing editor at the Atlantic, “You really can trace almost any major story these days to something that originally appeared in The Times. The problem is that once it reaches the public, they may not even know it came from The Times.” Readers of The New York Times are extremely loyal as well. A daily issue is priced at $2.50 compared to $2.00 for the Wall Street Journal and $1.00 for USA Today. In addition, within nine months, 390,000 consumers have subscribed to www.nytimes.com for a premium price of approximately $4.00 a week [Table B] and 70% of print subscribers have taken

A tabloid is smaller than a broadsheet, usually being about half the