same story, different words

 CNN's "She dedicated herself to covering Northern Ireland. Murdered investigative journalist 'tirelessly pursued the truth'" and Fox's "Northern Irish police arrest 2 over killing of journalist" both report the story of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee. Although both sources are supposedly telling the same story, CNN and Fox took rather different approaches on the story. CNN spent most of the article discussing McKee's successful journalism career. Towards the end is really when they started talking about her death. Overall, this article seemed like a tribute and biography for Lyra McKee rather than a reporting of what happened. Meanwhile, Fox focused on the actual story: her murder. It is almost obvious what is being told by reading the two titles. CNN used words like "dedicated" and "pursued the truth" to describe the victim. In fact, only one word out of the 14 word title indicates the main idea of the story: "Murdered". Fox does the opposite and focused on crime, using only one word to describe McKee: "journalist". CNN's focus is the victim while Fox's focus is the criminals. Here are the first sentences of each article: "Lyra McKee, the young investigative journalist shot dead during violence in Northern Ireland on Thursday, had been widely viewed as a rising star within the industry (CNN) and "Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of a journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry" (Fox). In CNN's article, McKee is the subject and is given a positive description. The sentence structure is like McKee's success while sprinkling in her murder. Fox, like I said earlier, focused on the actual crime details. The subject of their first sentence are the police who arrested the teenagers, not the victim. Once again they refer to McKee not by her name but "journalist". Overall, it seems that CNN took a tribute approach while Fox took a crime report approach. 

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/uk/lyra-mckee-northern-ireland-gbr-intl/index.html

Fox:  https://www.foxnews.com/world/northern-irish-police-arrest-2-over-killing-of-journalist

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