Examining news sites

I examined four prominent news sites that many people use as a source for information. The two sites that I thought portrayed more of the murrow standard was the New York Times and the Washington Post. They both have a fair and balanced way about delivering the news. I felt that they were as unbiased as possible in giving both sides of the story. All of the articles on the homepage of the site were national news stories. As we talked about in class these two sites had little to no "fluff" articles.
The other two articles I examined were CNN and the Drudge report. These two sites had the exact same story as a headliner on each frontpage. The headliner was about Senator Larry Craig who was arrested for a misdemeanor. This story is a prime example of newsworthy. This story has that extra something that makes it to the frontpage because it is about an important public figure. Not only is it someone who is in the public eye but it has a sexual twist that enevitably makes people interested.
These two sites both had a variety of articles mixed on there frontpages. Each site had jsut as many fluff stories as they did hard news. Although national news always came first on the sites many stories about Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher followed them.
I would say that the Drudge report is the least like the Murrow Standard. In each of the frontpage stories you can sense a bias. I think this bias is to generate hits on there site because they make there stories more controversial.
I would be most likely to read news sites that give a variety of articles pertaining to hard news and soft news. I think that these sites, although not traditional, keep my interest longer.