Sydney Siege Speech

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Since the dawn of time there's always been news and there's always been change. Is change bad? No of course not, but it depends on what it changes to. So did the change of news have a positive or negative impact on news today? That's what I'm here to discuss. Hello as you know I'm Gianine and I’m here to discuss how the constant demand for content made news now a laughing stock. Today to prove this concept correct I have chosen the story of the “Sydney Siege” and extracted three articles about this event from news.com.

So to begin with this event took place took place in central Sydney at Lindt Chocolate cafè when unaccompanied gunman Haron Monis held seventeen people hostage on the 16th of December 2014. This seventeen hour stand-off with the police ended when shots were fired inside the cafè consequently killing Tori Johnson the manager of the cafè, Katrina Dawson a mother of three and Islamic preacher Haron Monis.

The first article I’m going to discuss was published on the 16th of December 2014 five hours after the tragic event happened. The stories eye-catching
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Already by the title it appeared the author like was just voicing his opinion on what happened. There were three many aspects that differ to article one. These are, in article one it says that there were only fifteen hostage but in this article it states there are seventeen, article one also states that two people died, including the gunman and that only four were injured but in fact there were five injured and two were brutally murdered. The last difference was article one says authorities official declared the siege ended at 2:45am but here states otherwise saying it was put to end at 2:10am. This information may be different because of the first author rushing to publish the story and forgetting to collect real facts, there was information purposely left out or

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