Today, March 30, 2009, a 23 year-old man attacked his three sisters with a knife, killing two of them and wounding the third. CNN covered the story in a video, and dailystab.com covered it in a short write up.
Both stories were framed in a similar way and weren’t very objective, most likely because of the shock and tragedy factor in the story. However, the story on dailystab.com definitely showed the opinions of the writer much more. For example, the story starts off with the line “Oh man, this is so sad and very disturbing,” which reveals the opinion of the writer immediately. The rest of the story sticks mostly to the facts, but the two quotations picked by the writer were clearly selected to prove the validity of his opinion because they are both from the police chief who spoke strongly about the atrocity of the event.
On the other hand, although the CNN video doesn’t state the opinions of the journalist outright, the interview clips with the police chief and the images shown were clearly put in to show how atrocious the murderer is and how tragic the incident is. For example, the video shows smiling pictures of two of the sisters involved multiple times to get sympathy from the viewers. The video also talks about seminars that will take place at the surviving sister’s school and interviews one of the teachers about them, and she also gives her opinion about what happened.
Although journalists try to be objective and give both sides of the story, both of these sources take a clear stance on what happened and frame it in a way that makes viewers see the incident as tragic and the killer a monster more than they would have if only the facts were presented.
Links:http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/03/30/wcvb.brother.kills.sisters.wcvb
http://www.dailystab.com/man-beheads-5-year-old-sister/
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