Wednesday, January 1, 2014

I need an example of comparative newspaper coverage of one or more items. I don't really know what this means or how to do it.

Comparative newspaper coverage of newsworthy items describes an event in national or international society, politics, government, peace negotiations, economics or in any news category, such as science, archeology, genetics or entertainment, from different perspectives. The easiest example to illustrate this concept of comparative coverage is to compare how a Republican Party oriented newspaper might cover the announcement of the presidential candidacy of a Green Party candidate compared to how an Independent Party oriented newspaper might cover the same announcement.


We might expect the Republican perspective to point out all the questions and negative theories about the validity of global warming or of global climate change (which are not synonymous concepts) and to question their causal relationship to famines and wars, while we might expect the Independent perspective to point out the drought, famine, terrain damage and the dwindling water and ice sheet supplies and represent them as the forerunners of famines, wars and genocides.


The news agency with the Republican Party orientation and that with the Independent Party orientation would provide comparative newspaper coverage of a newsworthy item describing the event or issue from two different perspectives, that is to say, from comparative perspectives.


A recent news story that is written from comparative coverage angles (different, or comparative, perspectives) illustrates this concept through the field of science. The recent discovery of an interaction of dark matter particles with other dark matter particles (formerly thought to have zero interaction) led to several important articles. One of these reported on the discovery by emphasizing the interaction, while another emphasized the complex science that dark matter interaction leads to. The coverage from the two sources gave comparative coverage of the same news event. Specifically, the article in Phys.org emphasized the newly discovered interaction between dark matter particles, while the article in Scientific American emphasized the rich particle physics--dark mediator particles and dark energy--opened up to inquiry because of the discovery.

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