The story I chose to compare was the Garrido case, having to do with the look for two young girls who have been missing around Lake Tahoe. Garrido kidnapped a young girl named Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago, and fathered two children with the young kidnapped girl. Garrido was a registered, convicted sex offender, and his trial for the latest kidnapping is still being scheduled.
The first media I observed was television, Fox news, and the story was about five minutes, and also had a press conference from the police official in charge of the case. The only two sources that were quoted by the news was the family of the victim and the police. The television news compares to newspaper in that the television-based news has a lot of visuals and ways to keep you interested. Newspaper is tougher for people to get into because it’s strictly written, and has to draw in readers by language instead of visuals like the television media.
The second media outlet I looked at was online news. I went to the ABC website to find national news, and looked at the update on the Garrido case. The online news is very detailed, but not as intriguing as the television coverage on the story. The story is only a few paragraphs long, not quite a page. The only sources used in this story were the police, and investigators. It is definitely like print media, not really like broadcast.
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