Print Media Comparison

Gary Pethe

Print Media Comparison

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or Gitmo is detention facility that was started in 2002. The military facility is a place where detainees are alleged criminals of war from Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places. In late September, 2009 a 166 detainees went on a hunger strike after President Obama made the statement that "He was going to shut the facility down and transfer them to prisons in the United States."

Differences

The newspaper article and journal article that are referenced in regards to the incident read far from similar. Maybe the number of detainees that started the strike and the dates but the journal article goes into extensive detail to explain the reason for the treatment of those detainees. One of the main differences seen between these two types of print is that the newspaper had very little detail, and the journal had a great deal of detail. The journal went beyond just the catchy headline and talked about Bioethics and Human Rights in regards to this issue of the facility force feeding the detainees. Newspapers have always been a grabber type of print with the simple headlines and very little facts. The newspaper differs from the journal in the aspect that it tends to want to lead the reader in blaming someone for these suspected terrorists instead of giving just the facts. The newspaper was seven paragraphs long and in the second and third paragraphs all it did was highlight Obama. The journal article goes back to incorporate President Bush as well as the current president. The humanistic angle the journal takes shows or allows the reader to really know about the pain and turmoil the detainees go through when just such an event as force feeding takes place. The newspaper only hit the surface of any detail about the force feeding of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees. The newspaper article seems to take a personal vendetta in regards to trying to show that the Obama administration is at fault for the how situation. Newspapers and the journalists that write for them are mainly about the revenue that can be brought in. The numbers presented in the newspaper differed also from the journal. The newspaper gave the number of detainees as 166 whereas; the journals gave a different number of 131 as of September 11, 2005.

Similarities

There are very few a similarity with these two articles other than the story was on the same topic. Maybe the hitting on the two presidents that have contact with Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are the same