Sunday, December 3, 2017

Different Media Sources on the Same Topic

    When looking at two different sources of the same topic I was surprised in the differences between the two. I chose the topic of the tweet trump had sent out on Muslim immigrant violence. I read coverage on it from CNN and Fox News. The article CNN came out with got straight to the point and titled it, 'Trump Tweets Anti-Muslim Videos". While Fox News was very vague about the title and never really said what it was about. They titled the article "McMaster Speaks to Trump's Tweets". You can see how they never really addressed the exact topic of the article. When you read the two articles you can see huge differences as well. For one when you are reading CNN's it talks from the point of view of both sides. It shares opinions and things that people have said in both support of the tweet and against the tweet. It also digs deeper into how outraged many people were and why. In this it covers more and from both sides. While in Fox News it never really describes the other point of view. The whole time McMaster talks in trumps defense and why he was right to post this video. Except he never really gives a valid reason to why trump was justified to post this video. They also very briefly talked  about the opposing side of this situation, but shot it down pretty quickly. When reading these two articles you could also see which side each article was on as well. McMaster talked the whole time of how important it was that Trump posted this and how he did it in the country's best interest. While CNN showed more of the outrage it sparked. When reading these two articles you can clearly see the separation within media. Even though both news sources wrote about the same topic, each side had very different opinions and made you think in very different ways about each. This just shows how even on the same topic, the news is able to completely change your perspective on the issue by its use of wording and the way it presents the issue.

CNN's Article
Fox News Article

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