This week’s assignment was to take the same story, but find 2 different articles about it from different news sources. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. I had a lot of trouble trying to find a somewhat interesting story in two different news sources. Of course, I immediately went to the internet because I am always on the computer and I started to search. I went to Google News, which brought me to NorthJersey.com, and The New York Times to find two articles of the same story.
Recently, there was a change with Cablevision and the channels we were able to view. Cablevision as now “blocked” Fox 5 from viewers. Many sports fans are quite upset with this decision because they are unable to watch a lot of the sports programs on television. This change was only in the Tri-State area but it did affect approximately 3 million viewers. This decision is really similar to the HGTV and Food Network decision a few months back. Viewers were literally unable to watch anything on those channels, and the same situation is happening on Fox 5.
The first article I found on NorthJersey.com opens up with a short story about how Rich De Simone had to leave his house during a game to go to a Sports Restaurant to watch the game. While he was at the restaurant, his wife called up the cable company and “game them a piece of her mind.” Apparently, according to this article, Fox 5 was not the only channel that went “dark” on viewers. My9, Fox Business Network, National Geographic Wild, and Fox Deportes were also dark for the 3 million viewers. The viewers interviewed in this article, all male, were just concerned that they were unable to watch their favorite sporting events.
The second article I found on The New York Times was about the same exact topic. This article mentioned, just like the first article, the other channels that were affected by this “blackout.” In this article, they writer mentions that the spokesman for Fox Sports just “asking for fair compensation for the value that Fox5 and My9 programming offers and the same negotiated rate that other cable operators have agreed to already.” The New York Times article provided similar information as the first article. They had their differences, but both articles offered sufficient information about the subject.
These articles are about the same topic, but they do in fact have their differences. The first article from NorthJersey.com gives opinions from actual Cablevision customers. These opinions make it easier to see what the public thinks about the whole subject. The article from The New York Times has quotes from the spokesmen from the companies which is also helpful because it shows the readers and customers the facts about the decision making process. The New York Times article also gave more specific information about exactly what programs customers would be missing during the blackout. The writer gave the times and teams that were playing on the station. The NorthJersey.com article was pretty vague about the facts and was basically an overall opinion of the men who watched the station for sports.
Both of these articles are good articles and give the readers an overall feel for how the customers feel about the new decision. This example goes to show you that different articles about the same topic can be very similar but really different at the same time.
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