Question

1. How do different media outlets cover the same story?
2. Why do you think they are different or the same?

Answer 1

There are various media outlets such as newspapers, television, radios, magazine, and social media. So there are different audience groups for different media outlets. The same story is presented in a different way to target the audience of a different outlet like a report for the newspaper to target literate and learners, debate for television to target family members household, news headline in radios and memes, pictorial presentation, tweets, bytes in social media to target the youth population and netizens.

I think media outlets cover the same story differently because:
1. The same news or story is covered by different reporters working for a different media house that wants the news to be presented differently.
2. All the reporter has to follow the editorial lines of employers which may differ by one media house to another.
3. There is huge competition among the media houses and channels to attract viewers so obviously they prefer to do present the story keeping the mindset of viewers.
4. Some of the media houses are politically biased so they present the story accordingly.
5. Newspaper, television, radios and social media have different set of audience