mandag den 5. marts 2012

Different ways of presenting the same news


”11 year old girl dead hours after fight at school” did http://www.vladtv.com/ write February 28, 2012. The same day did the Danish online news site, www.nyheder.tv2.dk write: ”US. 11 year old gild kills her friend.” At this point are there already some differences in the way the two news sites haven chosen to present this piece of terrible news. The Danish version is differently more directly and harsh in the headline.

Thereafter, we take a look on the contents of the two articles. The American article tells us, that the 11-year-old Joanna Ramos died six hours after she had been in a fight with a classmate on the same age as her. The two girls had been in a fight over a boy, who they both wanted to go with to
their school yard brawl. After the fight went Johanna back to school, but because she complained that she felt ill and vomited she went home. Johanna’s mom said: "My daughter started complaining, saying she doesn't feel good, let's go home, so we went to home and I changed her clothes, and she go to sleep, that's the only thing that I know.  We took her to the hospital but it was too late. She was in a coma." The people who saw the fight wanted to stop it, but some boys who wanted the fight to happen kept them back. The end for the article says, that there are no arrested yet.

The two articles chose both to quote this:
"I personally don't hear of 11-year-old fights like this, especially girls. I can't say they never happen but I think everyone was completely caught off-guard by this event." The differences are just, that the American article says that this is the police spokeswoman Nancy Pratt, who said this. At the other hand says the Danish article, that it’s doctor Keith Black, who said this.

In the Danish article is it the same reason they mention for the reason of the fight. The same thing is valid for the boys, who hold the people, who tried to stop the fight back and the same concluding remark is there about, that no one are arrested is present. However, the Danish article mention, that the dead girl was 10 years old, which is different from the American article. Other contradictory comment is, that the Danish article says, that she went directly to the hospital after she started complaining. Additionally, does the Danish article also mention, that the doctor of Johanna told the family, that she was alive, but that he few minutes after told them, that there was nothing they could do to save her, which isn’t mention in the American article.
           
Accordingly to superior I can conclude, that the to articles are different in the ways of choosing facts and are dissident with some of the details, but that they overall tell the same story.