Comparing News Sources

Look at the following sites:

http://sfgate.com/chronicle/ - San Francisco Chronicle

http://nytimes.com – New York Times

http://latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

http://www.foxnews.com – Fox News

http://www.cnn.com – CNN

http://www.usatoday.com – USA Today

1. What stories are featured in each of these sites?

2. How much overlap is there from site to site?

3. How much difference is there from site to site?

4. What do you think drives the differences when they are reporting on the same events that happen in the world each day?

5. What would cause the papers to focus on the same event? Would they approach it the same way? If so, why? If not, why not?

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