Two of my video clips did not have embed codes, so I just took a screen shot of the beginning of the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATof6Dw_V0
- CNN
- Time Warner owns CNN. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner; it was the first all news channel in the U.S. and also the first channel to run new 24/7.
- Sources used in this article are the couple in the yachting boat, and the man who recorded the video.
- Keywords: Massive animal, Jaws, blubber, leaps, huge sail boat
- Russia Today
- MHz Networks owns Russia Today; RT is a global multilingual television network that is located in Moscow. It was the very first all digital television network in Russia.
- Sources used in this article are the couple in the yachting boat, and the man who recorded the video.
- Keywords: Catamaran, leaps, whale, mast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbFZBczZjY&feature=related
- CBS owns itself and other companies, it started as a radio-broadcasting network but today it is a major television network in the U.S.. The company was bought by William S. Paley in 1927 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System, hence the initials CBS.
- Sources used in this article are the couple in the yachting boat, and the man who recorded the video.
- Keywords: 40-ton whale, leaps, mast
All of these news clips are covering the same thing, ‘Whale crashes on Yacht’, yet all of them seem to have a different take on them. But similarly, all of the stories described how large the whale was, and how it came crashing down on the boat that was smaller than the whale. They also mentioned that the two people on the boat were okay and the whale just swam off as if nothing had happened.
What I think that the only difference is the vocabulary used and the technique. One clip just found the video of the crash, one interviewed the man it happened to and put pictures in a slide show, and the 3rd clip had incorporated the actual video in their story. There were different vocabulary used to describe the situation, but all of the news anchors were trying to get you to picture what was happening.
I feel like the visual aids in these articles played a large role in why the delivery of the stories were so similar. There's no real need to change words around when viewers will be able to see and understand the story for themselves via video and picture. I wonder if the account of the whale jumping would have been described differently if it weren't for the visuals. Or would this story have even made it into the news if it weren't for the engaging video? Just a thought.
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