Pelosi’s Husband Is Gravely Injured in Hammer Attack by an Intruder
I found stories on this event in written form on the New York Times, and as a video broadcast on the Today Show on NBC.
Each story has a different lead, with the written version starting with the fact that an intruder entered House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco with the intention of finding her. Instead, the intruder found her husband, Paul Pelosi and attacked him with a hammer. The NBC broadcast leads with the fact that Pelosi’s husband is recovering from surgery that repaired a skull fracture caused by an attack.
Both stories contain similar content, discussing the suspect and what the police found when they arrived on the scene. The written New York Times story focused on reoccurring events of political violence along with the past of the Pelosi’s. This article drifted to this information towards the end, after covering the major events of the attack on Mr. Pelosi.
The video broadcast story went into more detail about the events of the attack. NBC included how the police responded to Pelosi’s call for help and how the suspect was brought into custody. After focusing on the important details of the attack, the broadcast continued to discuss previous attempts of violence targeted at Nancy Pelosi, including the storming of the capitol.
Both sources used the same quote from San Fransisco’s Chief of Police William Scott, that read, ““This was not a random act. This was intentional.”
Both sources also included similar portions of a statement read by President Joe Biden.
“There’s too much violence,” the president said. “Political violence. Too much hatred. Too much vitriol.”
The New York Times article only used one picture in the story, which displays FBI investigators at the Pelosi residence. The NBC broadcast used a variety of pictures and video clips, either of the Pelosi residence, or of the quotes mentioned above. This broadcast even included footage of people storming the capitol, obviously searching for Pelosi as they called her name.
Overall, both forms of media were efficient in presenting information on the event in clear and concise ways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/nancy-paul-pelosi-attack.html?searchResultPosition=3