Oct 10 2018
News Comment #8 – Compare Types of Writing
KTIV: https://ktiv.com/2018/10/09/president-trump-in-council-bluffs-tuesday-night-for-rally/
Sioux City Journal: https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/trump-in-iowa-skews-ethanol-debate/article_9f670077-67a7-5373-9cf7-95bde1b62ea6.html
The lead in the broadcast story I observed seemed to use more facts than the written story in their lead ins. The Journal used a quote in their lead while KTIV used more situational facts in theirs. The information in the broadcast seemed to be more factual at the top then story at the bottom, and in the Journal it was flipped with quotes at the top then facts at the bottom.
The Journal article was longer by a little bit, the video of the broadcast was a minute and a half long whereas the Journal article took me a little over 2 minutes to consume.
Both used about the same amount of quotations, the broadcast cut to two direct clips of Trump speaking, whereas the Journal used more people in quoting referencing Hubbell as well as Trump but using relatively the same amount of content.
There was no real contribution other than who the quotes were by, the Journal did that well, and KTIV used a video of Trump saying his quotes every time without other clips being played over top of the quotes.
The broadcast used lots of crowd shots and crowd noise as well as shots of Trump and direct quotes from him. They also had a stand up shot of Matt Breen to intro the piece and to outro it as well.
Nothing else I noticed.
One response so far
OK, Daniel. The Journal story is oddly focused on the Governor’s race and Trump’s focus on Hubbell. KTIV is all over the E-15 thing. Both have roughly the same audience, so why the difference?