Being that it is distributed in the capital of our nation, The Washington Post primarily brings national and political news to the public’s attention. The Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald, on the other hand, detail events that are pertinent to that city or region. Having said that, there are stories in The Washington Post that are discussed in The Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald.
The Washington Post’s homepage is organized in that there is national political news at the top and as you scroll down the more localized it gets. It also discusses the other headings in the newspaper like opinion, business, and sports. The Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald actually have local news at the top and in order to get to national news you must click on tabs at the top to navigate away from the home page.
These newspapers all talk about many of the same national topics despite being on different parts of the website. Since The Washington Post is based in D.C., the front-page headlines are about the looming government shutdowns and the implications of Obamacare. These stories are also included in The Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald but they are at different locations on their website.
We can see that all three of the articles display the facts of the looming government shutdown. The Republicans want to delay Obama’s new healthcare law for a year but negotiations are at a standstill with the shutdown looming next week. Despite being on different locations on the newspaper’s website, they still cover the main facts of what is being talked about in Washington.
The Washington Post also discusses international news, such as Syria, on its homepage. The Chicago Tribune and Miami Herald also link to articles about Syria, but not on its homepage; you have to navigate to the “World Politics” sections on their respected websites. In all three, the overall theme of Syria was the same, but discuss different topics. For example, The Washington Post commented how Syria’s toxins can be defeated easily, The Chicago Tribune outlined how the U.S. and Russia agree on a Syrian chemical arms measure, and the Miami Herald stated how the price of oil is being affected with our involvement in Syria. While the story is different in each newspaper, the overall topic of Syria is discussed in all three websites.
It is interesting to note how localized the other newspapers are; the Miami Herald’s homepage is about hunting for tegu lizards and the Chicago Tribune’s homepage is about how auditors caught a fraud in the region. News prominent in The Chicago Tribune is about Chicago, IL and news prominent in the Miami Herald is about Miami, FL. If you want national or international news, you have to find it yourself since it isn’t on the homepage like The Washington Post. Despite highlighting different articles because they are in different regions, all three newspapers touch upon many of the same articles in different locations of their website.
Robert compares The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald and concludes that each of the newspapers discusses generally the same world news, but varying local news depending on location. He uses a large amount of support through articles in each newspaper to highlight the most prominent information in each. All three newspapers focus on world news as their main source of interest, such as the impending government shutdown, Obamacare, and the crisis in Syria, but The Washington Post, considered a centralized area of politics, begins itself with political news. The Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune require extra navigation to access this news. I think it would be interesting to add to this argument how these differences affect each newspapers' audience interest, and which newspaper has the most readers. The article provided has a revealing chart about the top newspapers in the world, noting The Washington Post as the 7th top subscribed newspaper, with a very high amount of paper subscriptions in comparison to online subscriptions. Why is this the case? Is it in regards to location, political influence, or the workforce? I believe some research into this area would have been very interesting and telling regarding the differences between these three large-city newspapers.
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First, I thought the headline was very good because I learned something before even reading his post. He begins by explaining the differences in the content of the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune and Miami Herald. One focuses on national news, while the other two focus on local news and you have to scroll down on the page to find the national news. However, all three newspapers include how Republican’s want to delay Obama’s new healthcare law. I thought it was good how Robert gave a specific example of an issue that was discussed in all three papers, because this emphasized the similarities of the papers.
ReplyDeleteHe also included how the homepages of the three newspapers are different. For instance, the Miami Herald’s homepage is about hunting for tegu lizards. If I could add to this post I would include a picture of each newspaper’s homepage. This way, readers could easily see the different topics that are discussed in the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. In addition, it would be interesting to give unique qualities of each of the three newspapers. Do any of the papers have a specific column that no other paper has? Last, I would include ways that the papers connect to each other. I found and article in the Chicago Tribune that is from the Washington Post. I thought it was interesting that two different papers included the same exact article.
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