CNN and Fox News
Watching the news, in general, can be a very tedious. However, news plays a significant role in societies; in which news provide information about recent events that occur in the world. The presentation and the facts reported in the news can raise attention in society. At times, we often raise questions or feel very suspicious of the accuracy of the report presented in the story. News Reporters do not often purposely broadcast stories that are not precise; however, some stories are either published before getting all the information, which could result in a false story or slanted towards a particular major groups or targets. CNN is one of the newscasts and Fox News as one of the broadcast networks I chose to distinguish …show more content…
One clear example is how both CNN and Fox News represented the story of the University of Missouri Campus protest as racism still present today. On Tuesday morning November 10, 2015, CNN covered the story of the University of Missouri Campus protest for twenty minutes on the black students who reportedly experienced racism on Missouri campus. CNN conveyed “African- American students at Missouri have long complained and experienced racism by school leaders on the devastatingly white Columbia campus went on protesting to take action for change on racism in the university” (CNN, 2015). Both CNN and Fox, in which Fox notably covered this story for fifteen minutes, informed that black student leaders gathered together and had conveyed their condemnation and annoyance over students who used racial insults and other incidents such as bullying the differences among the campus community. In which result to the resignation of the university president Tim Wolfe and the Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, who claimed and confessed they neglected to respond to a series of racial incidents in the campus community. CNN and Fox News emphasized how the students are willing to make a change and seek for change on racism. This story was objectively presented live, as it was a protesting and the credibility was accurate because it was a straightforward …show more content…
On November 12, 2015, CNN and Fox News covered the story eight to ten minutes of eight years old boy who became aggravated, and annoyed brutally attacked and a one-year-old girl who would not stop crying. All this happened after the mother of the siblings left them in the house to go clubbing with no adult or babysitter to supervise the house full of children under eight years old. The young boy was charged with murder while the mother accused of manslaughter. The controversial issue of the story CNN and Fox news presented focuses on how prosecutors are going to prosecute an eight-year-old for murder and whether is it ethical for the mother of the eight-year-old to be part and be charged for the death of the one-year-old. Emory Anthony, Lewis' attorney, voiced CNN associate that “manslaughter is appropriate when someone acts recklessly or irresponsibly, not when they allow someone else to act in a dangerous manner” (Anthony, 2015). Fox News pointed out that the mother should have known the danger she put on the children when she stepped her foot out clubbing; therefore it is justified for her to charge with manslaughter. The credibility of the story was acceptable because this is an unexpected and controversial story that will have some impact on the boy’s family, the justice system and to everyone that is listening to this story. The
Watching the news, in general, can be a very tedious. However, news plays a significant role in societies; in which news provide information about recent events that occur in the world. The presentation and the facts reported in the news can raise attention in society. At times, we often raise questions or feel very suspicious of the accuracy of the report presented in the story. News Reporters do not often purposely broadcast stories that are not precise; however, some stories are either published before getting all the information, which could result in a false story or slanted towards a particular major groups or targets. CNN is one of the newscasts and Fox News as one of the broadcast networks I chose to distinguish …show more content…
One clear example is how both CNN and Fox News represented the story of the University of Missouri Campus protest as racism still present today. On Tuesday morning November 10, 2015, CNN covered the story of the University of Missouri Campus protest for twenty minutes on the black students who reportedly experienced racism on Missouri campus. CNN conveyed “African- American students at Missouri have long complained and experienced racism by school leaders on the devastatingly white Columbia campus went on protesting to take action for change on racism in the university” (CNN, 2015). Both CNN and Fox, in which Fox notably covered this story for fifteen minutes, informed that black student leaders gathered together and had conveyed their condemnation and annoyance over students who used racial insults and other incidents such as bullying the differences among the campus community. In which result to the resignation of the university president Tim Wolfe and the Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, who claimed and confessed they neglected to respond to a series of racial incidents in the campus community. CNN and Fox News emphasized how the students are willing to make a change and seek for change on racism. This story was objectively presented live, as it was a protesting and the credibility was accurate because it was a straightforward …show more content…
On November 12, 2015, CNN and Fox News covered the story eight to ten minutes of eight years old boy who became aggravated, and annoyed brutally attacked and a one-year-old girl who would not stop crying. All this happened after the mother of the siblings left them in the house to go clubbing with no adult or babysitter to supervise the house full of children under eight years old. The young boy was charged with murder while the mother accused of manslaughter. The controversial issue of the story CNN and Fox news presented focuses on how prosecutors are going to prosecute an eight-year-old for murder and whether is it ethical for the mother of the eight-year-old to be part and be charged for the death of the one-year-old. Emory Anthony, Lewis' attorney, voiced CNN associate that “manslaughter is appropriate when someone acts recklessly or irresponsibly, not when they allow someone else to act in a dangerous manner” (Anthony, 2015). Fox News pointed out that the mother should have known the danger she put on the children when she stepped her foot out clubbing; therefore it is justified for her to charge with manslaughter. The credibility of the story was acceptable because this is an unexpected and controversial story that will have some impact on the boy’s family, the justice system and to everyone that is listening to this story. The