Late October 2016, a tragic accident causing multiple deaths and injuries made local and national news. When reported by NBC nightly news hosted by Lester Halt, the story seem to make headlines because of the popular application and it’s filter “Snap chat”, and when it was reported by Tampa Bay Times it seemed to make headlines because of the multiple fatalities that happened amongst a community. Television and newspaper have emerged as two types of popular mass media. How can the same story tell two different stories?
Watching the NBC Nightly News, immediately when the story aired a picture with the snap chat logo is present with words written “Fatal distraction”. This is almost to mirror a popular movie “Fatal attraction” to first get the …show more content…
The letters are bold and black telling me, this is important. In the beginning, the writer, Tony Marrero Times staff writer, use very strong descriptive and auditory words to make the readers seem as if they were in the car. “A young man in the driver seat slams through the gas of his manual transmission as the engine roars and club music plays on the stereo “. It is mentioned that the speed is seen changing from one extreme to the next. “A woman is heard giggling”. This is creating an auditory sensory for the reader on the news broad cast, there wasn’t even mentioned of the girl giggling, if so the viewer couldn’t hear it because it got drowned out by the visual distractions, while continue reading the writer states the driver name, age, and what car he was driving. This is so if a picture or any image provided along with the story we can differentiate and recognize the cars that were involed. The writer “Tony Marrero” also included the place and time of the accident. He gives us another visual description of how the car crashed “slammed nearly head on”. Not only did Tony Marrero tell us about the main crash, but a driver of a third car was seriously injured. This information is important because it’s relating to the story. The article includes a report which names the time of the crash. There is a creditable logical statement made by sgt, Steve Biaskins, giving an actual statement about the crash and not snap chat. After the writer tells you the whole story about the accident, then he brings up the supposed cause of the accident, which is snap chat. Marrero named and described another accident allegedly caused by snap chat. This particular incident resolved into a lawsuit against snap chat, fortunately in this accident both suspects and victim survived. This is very useful because instead of trying to guess what happened in this recent
Watching the NBC Nightly News, immediately when the story aired a picture with the snap chat logo is present with words written “Fatal distraction”. This is almost to mirror a popular movie “Fatal attraction” to first get the …show more content…
The letters are bold and black telling me, this is important. In the beginning, the writer, Tony Marrero Times staff writer, use very strong descriptive and auditory words to make the readers seem as if they were in the car. “A young man in the driver seat slams through the gas of his manual transmission as the engine roars and club music plays on the stereo “. It is mentioned that the speed is seen changing from one extreme to the next. “A woman is heard giggling”. This is creating an auditory sensory for the reader on the news broad cast, there wasn’t even mentioned of the girl giggling, if so the viewer couldn’t hear it because it got drowned out by the visual distractions, while continue reading the writer states the driver name, age, and what car he was driving. This is so if a picture or any image provided along with the story we can differentiate and recognize the cars that were involed. The writer “Tony Marrero” also included the place and time of the accident. He gives us another visual description of how the car crashed “slammed nearly head on”. Not only did Tony Marrero tell us about the main crash, but a driver of a third car was seriously injured. This information is important because it’s relating to the story. The article includes a report which names the time of the crash. There is a creditable logical statement made by sgt, Steve Biaskins, giving an actual statement about the crash and not snap chat. After the writer tells you the whole story about the accident, then he brings up the supposed cause of the accident, which is snap chat. Marrero named and described another accident allegedly caused by snap chat. This particular incident resolved into a lawsuit against snap chat, fortunately in this accident both suspects and victim survived. This is very useful because instead of trying to guess what happened in this recent