The top news stories the past few days have been centering around the earthquake that struck Haiti. Spend some time browsing some major news websites (cnn.com, msnbc.com, usatoday.com, etc.) Read the articles and then come back and answer these questions.
1. First tell me the source of the news.
2. What different angles are being used to report on the story?
3. Do you detect any bias? (Are stories suggesting you should do something as a reaction to the quake?)
4. Describe the photography used to accompany the article. Choose a single photograph and tell me about it in great detail. How is the tragedy of the event being illustrated or enhanced by the use of photography.
Please number your responses to correspond with the question above.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html
2. This article is using both primary and secondary sources to help report this story. They are using direct quotes and true facts.
3. I do not really detect and bias. The reporter goes on to tell of what other countries and other people are doing to help the haitian nation but there is no statement made that one needs to go and help or that one should.
4. With this article, there are 7 pictures to accompany it. I choose to discuss the picture number 5 and it is a picture of buildings made into rubble. The buildings collapsed and there are no walls standing. Everything is broken and poured out into the street. Carel Pedre took this picture while he was searching for his daughter in Petionville. Luckily, she was found safe and sound. This picture helps inhance the tragedy because you can actually see all the devistation even though you are not there.
1. MSNBC.com
ReplyDelete2. The point of view from a Red Cross member
3. Yes, MSNBC sort of blames the rest of the world for not aiding Haiti with quotes from President Obama.
4. Many photos are of young children in the rubble. I found one photo of a young girl who appears to be trapped by a rock. she is reaching up for someone to grab her hand and free her from the devastation but the photographer had to of been like "wait a second, let me get a picture first!"
Haiti eathrquake:
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1.www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.victims/index.html
2.The angles viewed in this article are not only what happened but also the victims and survivors of the quake talk about how they feel and the whole expierence.
3.yes, there is a section called impact your world..what can you do and it just hopes for prayers and support.
4.The one picture that caught my eye was a picture of the 6 story builiding and whta was left of it. it shows how it tumbled and everyone is passing by it in the picture observing it in despair.
MSNBC:
1.www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34829978/ns/world-news-haiti-earthquake/
2.This article talks about all of the people that did not survive the earthquake and the terror of the survivors seeing their homes being destroyed.
3.No this is just telling you about the struggle in haiti they say in here that money is worth nothing at the moment
4.The picture that kinda stood out and made me wanna cry was taken from an above angle and it litteratly shows at least 15 bodys wrapped up in sheets that did not survive. and people standing around mourning
1. MSNBC... none of that CNN junk
ReplyDelete2.In this story, they use a red cross memeber!!! GO RED CROSS!
3. They seemed to be playing the blame game. They continuously blamed everyone else in the world for not funding Hati with the money needed to provide relief.
4. They depicted children who had been hit by this terrible incodent.... those poor poor children :'/
1. The New York Times
ReplyDelete2.Told from a mostly unbiased standpoint, while the editorials all express their opinion on how to help and rebuild Haiti.
3. ALL of the stories have that sort of bias. "Oh poor Haiti" "Donate here donate there." Of course the Haitians need help, but stop begging for my money and report the news!
4. One particular photo that captured my attention was one man who literally had to step around hundreds of dead Haitians just to walk down the street. Without the photography, the quake in Haiti would be nothing more than another news story. Without the photos, no one woul want to help.
1. The source of my news is cnn.com
ReplyDelete2. Diffrent angles in the story would have to be from the ways you can supply aid to Haiti, and diffrent ways the rescue teams are helping out.
3. Well I mwould not really say that anything is detecting any bias but they are saying that you should help out and donate some money to help with the food or the medical aid.
4. The photograph that i choose is what used to be left of a six story building in Port-au-Prince, i feel that you can just see all of the devistation of what happened by the massive quake and i think the building almost looks like a stack of pancakes the way it feel down. Also in the picture there is a massive number of people gathered around and looking at what is left of this building. You can really see what massive quake that this really was.
1. cnn & msnbc.
ReplyDelete2. One article is in the view of someone that is sending updates to the world to talk about the new things that happen every few minutes or so. Another article is talking about how President Obama fells and reacts so the earthquake. Also about what has happened to the people and the land that the earthquake has hit.
3. I don't think that either articles are so much as bias as just informational. They both state the problem and how people there are trying to fix it as well as Obama.
4. On msnbc the main photo that is on the article shows how the earthquake tore the homes apart and how they caved in. The woman in the yellow shirt shows the emotion for not only herself but the people of Haiti. The men outside are looking at the disaster that has came throughout Haiti.
1. CNN World, "7.0 quake hits Haiti; 'Serious loss of life' expected" January 13, 2010.
ReplyDelete2.The different angles used in the story are mostly from a reporter's view, simply stating news and facts. The emotional appeal comes into play when the author uses quotes from actual survivors of the earthquake, while they vividly account the tragedy. Lastly, they use the angle of the US government, who is taking steps to make huge foreign relief efforts.
3.I don't detect very much bias in the story, it was mainly informative. There is mention of relief efforts, and the emotional accounts of the survivors may help to persuade us to take action, but it doesn't say that directly.
4.The photographs used in the article are taken before, during, and after the earthquake. They are very moving pictures, and one in particular stood out to me. It is picture #6 in the picture slideshow. The picture shows the damage caused by the earthquake directly after it occured. The emotion on the faces of the residents shows the feeling of complete terror that they experienced at the time. It enhances the article because it illustrates the emotional stress on the people of Haiti, as well as the damage inflicted to the city.
JaCindas Comment:
ReplyDelete1. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/14/haiti.earthquake/index.html
2. The angle being used is the America's view look at Hati and what happened and what our plans our to help.
3. Do you detect any bias? Yes, in the artical it discusses what America is doing to help out Hati, in how our country has sent search and rescue teams over.
4. The photo I saw that caught my eye was a picture taken Wensday on the side of a road in Port-au-Prince which captured 3 bodies that lay lied on the side of the road. The photo focuses on the bodies covered by sheets. One of the bodies even has carboard to cover the face of the earthquake victim. Yet in this photo the background shows people walking and standing there as if the bodies are not to be seem.The photo truly shows the heartache Hati is facing at this time.
1. The New-York Times
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2. The article starts out with an angle on Obama's pledge to send money in a relief effort, shifts to the accounts of how chaotic things in Haiti are,and concludes with the various ways aid groups are trying to assist the citizens.
3. I didn't see any specific bias, but there is a call for help when describing the efforts of various organizations.
4. There was only one photo that accompanied this article. It's of a young Haitian woman walking down the street and passing by the bodies of the victims from the earthquake that lay right next to her. This strengthens the article's point that in Haiti there's mass confusion and chaos. Morgues are completely full, and the death toll is described as "unimaginable" by Haiti's president with no real estimate able to be collected.
1. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html
ReplyDelete2. The artical is told in a secordary point of view. Meaning that it does not tell how the events happened and what it was like during the 7.0 earthquake but what dammage was left behind and what people said they saw right as it happened, making themselves primary sources for this artical.
3. There is a link between the articals that says: "How You Can Help" this link takes you to a new page where you can read more about the damage and it gives an assortment of organizations that you can click on and it tells you how to contribute.
4. At the top of the CNN page there is a slide show of 7 pictures. The first one shows a red and black motercyles that is sumerged under a slab of concrete amonst other rumbish. The second picture is taken by reporter Jonathan de la Durantaye from inside a passing vehicle, he snapped this picture as sooon as he felt some shaking. The third photo is of some raodside damage taken by Phyllis Bass it shows part of a missing wall and some trees that are fallen over. The fourth photo shows the outside of the clinic that Bass is helping at, you can see roof damage and the Sidewalk bubbled up and a man that seems to be wondering the streets. The fifth photo was taken by Carel Pedre while looking for his daughter, th epicture looks as if it could have been a house that has collopsed inside of itself making the door and front wall bow out and bar show throughout parts of the walls. The Sixth photo also taken by Pedre shows residents reactions to the horrifying damage shortly after the quake. Finally the seventh photo shows roadside damage such as a collapsed wall and people driving through the town looking at the damage.
With all the explaining I just did on those photos I dont think that anyone could really imagine what it really looks like and it wouldnt really have an impact until they saw the actual pictures.
Bridget
1. K-Love.com
ReplyDelete2. The angle of the story is the Haiti Earthquake from the perspective of a christian missionary working with the hands and feet organization that is linked to K-Love. The story is told from the point of view of a missionary who walked the streets of haiti and experienced the dispare of the earth quakes.
3. This story suggest that donations should be made towards organizations in order to help haiti regain functionablitiy.
4.The photo i have chosen is a picture of a todler about the age of 2 or 3 who has received a head injury and is being held in a large crowd of haitians all holding children and crying in despare in the middle of a rubbled street. The picture looks dusty and is focused only into the injured child.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/14/haiti.updates/index.html?hpt=T2
ReplyDelete1.)Haiti earthquake:new updates
The death toll of the united nations personnel, including mililtary and police officers, stands at 22,secretary-general ban kimoon said. About 150 U.N. staff member unaccounted for.
2.)I'm not for sure but i think the young adult and parents should be parend on how they young kids and young adult should go but i'm not for sure.
3.)I think the earth should have so many earthquake and stuff.
4.)I think so of the photo are bad and when the earthquake hit.
1.msnbc.com,cnn.com
ReplyDelete2.The articles are being told range from reporting on the devestation, what caused the earthquake,the international aid to the area, and the struggle that locals are facing to help each other.
3.I don't detect any bias in the articles that read. They told the facts of the situation and what other people were doing to help. When people were intervied they may have suggested that people should help, but not in a forceful mannor.
4.One pictur in particular was eye catching two male aid workers were helping a woman found in the rubble get out and walking her to help. she was covered in dust with her head hanging down, obviously in pain. This tells the story of many people and the situation as a whole.