Both of the leads are fairly similar in the message they are attempting to convey. The print version, AP News, gives more of an insight on what the problem is and why children becoming vaccinated between the age or 5 to 11 should get the same attention as people 12 and older. AP News states that “In the 5- to 11-year-old age group, there have been over 8,300 hospitalizations reported, about a third requiring intensive care, and nearly 100 deaths” noting how there are still alerting amount of hospitalizations reported in children ages from 5 to 11 years old and shouldn’t be looked over.
On the other hand, NBC News generalizes the whole idea if how Covid-19 is still impacts young children from ages 5 to 11. They also go over various hypothetical solutions that will supposedly helps the overall population fight Covid in the future.
Both stories are fairly similar in content, they both just have a different spin on the topic. Each source had well known credible sources that they took to base their main part of the story off. The quotes and paraphrasing flow nicely in both reports and gave the reader a great depiction of why kids from 5 to 11 years old should have a vaccine as well.
NBC News used the role of sound and pictures in their segment fairly nicely as I thought it all flowed coherently. AP News however, used pictures to help power their main topics. This allowed AP News to get their critical points a crossed to the readers since they weren’t a story on television that the audience could watch the elements they were trying to convey.
Morning talk shows are an odd beast. They are more conversational, and more “personal,” than other broadcasts. You get to watch a bunch of friends have a discussion, much as you wish you and your friends could. Then there’s that one really smart friend…
The first two grafs of the AP story may give parents all they need.