Journal Writing #2

Vanessa Diaz
100W- T/TR 12:00
Journal Writing #2
vanessad86@yahoo.com
Word count: 408

Newspaper
On September 29th, 2008 I read the Mercury News. The lead was about the bailout plan. It was about twenty paragraphs long with six different sources quoted. This is a very important story for our nation which led it to be on every major newspaper. Our country is going into a depression once again. The lead story did have photos. There were some with business people and others with Wall Street on it.

Television
On September 29th, 2008 at 5:00 p.m., I watched the news on CBS. The story was equivalent to 8 minutes long with about five different sources. The detail provided on television news compared to newspapers was different because on CBS they interviewed a few random people on the street. Also, different news reporters were giving their own opinion and had a few facts from governmental officials. Whereas, newspapers reporters have a list of people who they want to interview.

Web
The online source that I went to was AOL News. As soon as I logged on that was the first story that showed. Online news coverage of this particular issue compared differently in a sense that I got more of an understanding of what the situation was through this type of medium than the rest. It went more into detail on what is happening. The television news coverage was hard to follow since they kept speaking extremely fast. Also, they had so many quotes in such little time so it made it harder to follow and didn’t flow as well.
The story was about two and a half pages, not double-spaced, with about nine sources.
The writing style of the online information I found was unlike either of the other sources I read. This style was more of a story unlike a newspaper since it wasn’t in an inverted pyramid form. Each sentence wasn’t a new paragraph how newspaper articles usually are written. The online story went into more depth about what governmental officials think about the bailout plan. I also noticed that there were a lot more quotes since the story seemed to be longer than the rest of the mediums.
Online information is more current then the rest because reporters can keep on updating if they hear more about the bailout plan compared to the 5 o’clock and 10 o’clock news. Newspapers are sent out in the morning which they can’t update it unless they do it on the newspaper website.