Multiple lives of a news story paper - I focused mainly on the Fort Hood shootings, specifically the first two hours after the beginning of the reporting for the shooting. And I analysed the life of the news story from its very birth ...
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1.) Fort Hood Shooting – development of the story and what information changed as the story grew and developed.
ReplyDelete2.) Numbers were very important when relaying the information in this essay. The main focus of the shooting at first was how many people were involved. Elvis states how the story changed from just 7 people being killed and 12 injured to 12 people being killed and over 30 injured.
blogosphere- a key word we discussed earlier in the semester. Elvis shows that the story has been exposed to the blogosphere and has had facts changed and opinions embedded in the information.
3.) This essay is very strong with the use of sources. Many sources are used such as newspapers like the New York Times to various blogs like The Huffington Post. Another strong point of this essay is how Harris’ ideas of forwarding and countering were used to show the different ways the media relayed the information.
4.) This essay effectively showed how the media can give misconceptions to audiences with the absence or excess of words. Information can be distorted when different sources obtain access to the story and present that information incorrectly. The essay also shows that certain news sources simply ‘copy’ material and repost it to audiences.
Elvis
ReplyDelete1.) Follow the story of the Fort Hood shooting as it progressed by looking at all the different stories that came up because of it.
2.) Fort Hood, multiple lives of stories
3.) Strengths- you look at all aspects and cover your topic thoroughly. I like how you cover the general aspect of stories having multiple lives in the intro paragraph as well.
Weaknesses- It felt like you just listed some of the things off in some of your paragraphs. You might have been able to go into a little more detail.
4.) Overall good paper. Could use some more work to make it even stronger.