When 9/11 was happened, what we could see on TV was a repeated coverage of the World Trade Center being collapsed by the terrorists’ attack. The certain coverage was going on every TV channel over and over again. However, that is the certain image of what the media broadcast system chose for broadcasting. More sources such as updated images, videos and articles about the 9/11 event was available online. In September 11, 2001, as soon as you went online such as Google, Yahoo or CNN website, you could see all different sorts of information about why 9/11 was happened, who Osama Bin Laden was and where it was happened. Such global news like 9/11, the impact of online news articles and the online images have stronger diffusion effect than print newspapers.
Online newspapers: A variety free source
Online news articles are available online 24/7 free. People can just connect the internet and read the article by a mouse click. Unlike news articles, major print newspapers are not free to get them, and also they contain quite a number of articles and information. Print newspaper readers might find their interests on the first page head line, but what they can know about the specific article is limited. For example, The New York Times published the article about the California wildfire happened Oct. 23 as a main article with an image of a brush fire burning on the first page, but there is nothing more than that. However, The CNN website published the article on the web and noticeably, what I can get from the website is not online the article and the image, but also a lot of links and videos which are related to the ‘wildfire’ event in California.
Presentation of Online and Print newspapers
The way they present the articles are different. I read the article titled ‘Victims in Wildfire’s Fickle Path Say, Why ME?’ published on The New York Times on Oct. 24. As soon as I got the newspaper, the main picture on the first page caught my attention straight away. The image was a helicopter prepared to drop water on a brush fire burning yesterday in Escondido, California. Compared to the big strong image, the article of the wildfire was not written much which was totally a little article on the main page and continually half page of the page A13. While it was happened, that was the main event which I wanted to more about, but I could not find various and interesting sources about the event. On CNN website, I could click a link to a video clip showing where it was happened, and the situation of the wildfire moment. Whereas, the print newspapers can possibly be biased on a certain view, the internet newspapers are mostly likely fair. This is because you can link to other websites quickly, so the online article reader can look up the article in various points of view.
Reference:
http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?query=wildfire,
Wednesday, October 24 2007, The New York Times 'Victims in Wildfire's Fickle Path say, why me?'
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