So this post was a little boring for me because I had to compare to boring things together, but I managed to get through it and this it what I found. I decided to go with the most accessible paper for me (because it's free) the USA Today, and compare it's content with channel 2's news at 6.
In the paper there is only so much room and so much that can be said about a specific topic, but in a way it is also like that for the news. They have a 1 hour broadcast to get in the most important topics locally and around the world. Some of the top stories on the new were a local Security breach where a laptop containing 16,000 Buff State students, staff, and alumni's social security number and other personal information, and another top story was the Pope visiting New York City. It seems that the local news does just that, really focuses on what is important, need to know information locally. They only do a quick recap of the top 5 stories in the nation right now.
In the USA Today has a large on the polygamous sect that was raided in Texas and lots on the race for the presidency, and of course the rising fuel prices. There was little mention of sports or weather, because they can not really focus in on all of the cities in a short amount of time, so they usually cut away to the local new for 30 seconds to recap local weather.
So if what you are looking for is things like the latest sabres trade or what the weather is going to be like tomorrow, you probably would want to look towards localized newspapers or you local news channels. For what is going on around the world or the freak earthquake in the north east look in papers like USA Today or news stations like Nightly News and World News Tonight that looks at a broader spectrum of what is happening.
6 comments:
Nice post- I do think that newspaper and TV news are very different and it's hard to compare a short time period with an unlimited news source as newspaper is. I watch channel 2 news too, I think it is one of the better in Buffalo, but I'm also a little biased due to the fact that my Uncle works there... keep supporting it!! haha :)
i really like your post! it is so ture, both source of the media gets boring over time! i tune into the channel 2 news also only because channel 7 sucks! but for me its not that hard to compare the two, both sources has their flaws if you ask me!
Good post! I do think there is more information in the newspapers because, like you said, the news has one hour to do a broadcast of the most important things that they need to talk about. As with a newspaper there isn't only the "top stories" but also columns and other stories that are maybe smaller scale but still interesting to the readers.
Good post - I'm the same way, I don't really watch or read the news either, which is sad cause I'm a polisci major. You say that all that the TV news does is read you the paper... but just before that you said you prefer the news station that looks more high-def and updated, even though the information might be the same as other channels. If all that TV news was doing was to "read the paper" to you, it wouldn't really matter what it looked like, right? So would you say that style as well as substance matters to you?
I like the post, TV and News are very different ways to give us "the public" news. I like the point in which you said media is getting boring. I think thats partly the media's fault they always try to outdo themselves by making some stories seem larger then they are. When the shock factor is gone for the public what else is there but a bore.
Post a Comment