Comparing Media

Comparing Media

Feb. 19, 2018, it's the second Presidents Day since President Donald Trump had taken office, but the media isn't interested in celebrating. 
The focus of the story of the day was the indictment of the Trump Campaign. 
Russian involvement stories covered this issue of the New York Times newspaper today.
After the nonstop investigation and media coverage of the Russian involvement, Trump fired back on Twitter last weekend. 
The New York Times newspapers covered the Russian meddling stories beginning on the cover page taking five columns, and then another two and a half pages of the newspaper with eight articles on A10, A11 and A12. 
The stories took 29 columns of the newspaper in total. 
Each page related to the president included the header "The 45th President" bolded following the titles "The Team and The Investigation".
"Trump's Delight Over Indictment Hardes to Fury" was an article that went in-depth about the involvement. 
Many of the members of Trump's Campaign has already admitted to having contacted the Russians in the past. 
Trump called those who admitted "unwitting" actors who have no relation to his campaign. 
Another article titled "How Russians Exploited Web to Tangle the Vote" explores the tactics Russians used to start movements against Hilary Clinton during 2016. 
The Russians pretended to live in America to be a catalyst for social protests using social media. 
The articles pointed to one—thing, the Trump Campaign had ties with Russian meddling and the Trump Campaign is trying to cover the truth. 
The New York Times' online newspaper did not hold back on condemning the president either. 
The website was covered by stories of the Russian involvement on Trump and the U.S government. 
There was not a single article supported Trump and his campaign. 
The "Fact-check" section titled "Trump Falsely Claims, 'I Never Said Russia Did Not Meddle'" did not hesitate to bash on Trump. 
It shows series of Trump's tweets saying Russia did not meddle back in 2016. 
The articles explicitly state the indictment against the Trump Campaign does not change the outcome of the result of the 2016 Presidential Campaign but the stories certainly suggest that it did. 
The NPR podcast titled "Trump Suggests FBI Missed Signs of Fla. Shooting Because Of Russia Probe" lasting three minutes and 49 seconds was the least biased of the three media. 
Trump tweeted on Feb. 17,"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter.
This is not acceptable. 
They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. 
Get back to the basics and make us all proud!" 
The podcasters read the tweet and explored whether Trump was right or not.
The podcasters provided the audience with series of quotes to reveal the audience the whole story. 
The podcast was not opinionated but the language they did use to describe Trump's tweets demeaned Trump. 
The coverage between The New York Times newspapers and the online news were nearly identical. 
The difference came down to the layout. 
Out of the six articles in the newspaper, four were about Trump.
In the online newspaper, three out of the four articles were about Trump.
On each of the article in the online newspaper, The New York Times added photographs. The newspaper included four photos out of the six articles published. 
The radio focused on one specific story which was Tweeter posts of Trump. 
All three mediums informed the audience with all of the information available to them. 
There were no opinions, just facts. 
Yet all the information and the language used to analyze each article persuaded the audience to believe the Trump campaign is a dishonest organization.