http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/afghanistan.chopper.crash/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38723377
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/22/nato-troops-die-chopper-crash-southern-afghanistan-reports-enemy/
I chose the helicopter crash in Afghanistan as my topic for this assignment. It appears that the three sources i looked at wanted to get across what happened in an accurate way. All three news sources seemed to describe what happened in the same sort of way, however with some differrences. FOX news spent a lot of time in the article describing the victims, and what the victim's families thought. It seemed that FOX focused on recognizing those dead, whereas CNN spent a lot of time describing when Obama is planning on withdawing troops, and what is to be done about it, which no other article did. It also seemed that CNN and MSNBC included the injuries of Afghan people, whereas the FOX news article did not. FOX news also included how the Taliban "often exaggerate their claims and sometimes take credit for accidents", which I thought was interesting because no other article included such an idea. I think this is an important story to know about, it was an accident which resulted in death and desctruction and it should be discussed. It is important to not discriminate between what seems important and unimportant when it comes to people's death. In war, there is death by combat, but there are also deaths in combat and accidents that happen which are all important facets of war, and should not be overlooked.
This is a great article. It reminds me of the movie black hawk down. I agree with you on the three sources being different. I believe they do this that way you have no choice to swith around news agencies to get more of the story as if they were all working together. But obviously they will have some of the basic information the same because it is the same article all around.
ReplyDeleteI agree that people should be aware of deaths throughout the war. Like stated people know of deaths by combat, but I don't think some people realize how many people die of other things like accidents and friendly fire. Which ultimately is huge issues in itself. I also wonder why certain news agencies focus on certain things as pointed out above. Is it because of individual writers or the news agencies wanting to give off certain views? There is definitely differences among the articles from each agency.
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