Comparing Media

The story I chose to cover was about the arrest of Raymond Clark, a Yale University lab technician, who was charged with murder of Annie Le, a graduate student from Yale. Le was last seen alive September 8, and her body was found last week stuffed in the walls of a research building both she and Clark worked at.

The story was printed in the Wall Street Journal on Friday September 18th, and it took up about a third of the page. There was one black and white picture to the left that took up about half of the story's layout--it was a shot of Clark walking in handcuffs with police surrounding him. Within the story, there were six different people who were quoted. There was also a statistic about workplace homicide in the United States. The newspaper story gave all the direct facts, but only had a single picture to see what Clark looks like.

The TV story I found was from the Associated Press, and was 1 minutes 16 seconds long. There were shots of Clark in the courtroom being charged, of Chief James Lewis of the New Haven Police speaking about the situation,and 2 different students discussing the arrest. The TV story seemed like there was less information; thus, I felt the story was not covered as well. I believe the newspaper did the best job of covering this story, even though the TV story had an impact because of the visuals.

Cnn.com had the same story online. The article was about 850 words or so, and there were four different people that offered quotes. The web story contained the same basic information--Clark was arrested at a Super 8, he was charged with murder of Annie Le, and his bail is set at $3 million. A few of the quotes were from the same people in the TV and newspaper stories as well. The online story seemed rushed and not as thought out--I liked this story the least in comparison to the others.