Newspaper: When reviewing the San Jose Mercury the news being reported focused first on the victory, then on Tiger’s attitude and finally on his victory moving him past Arnold Palmer. This series of details makes sense as it is not necessarily a crowd specific to golf. For long-time golfers, the news most likely would have been Tiger moving past Arnold Palmer on the PGA Tour’s career list.
Web: I was quite surprised when juggling through online news as I primarily found the same articles that appeared in print in the New York Times, San Jose Mercury and more. However I did find an article on PGATour.com which explained briefly the victory and then listed fan emails to Woods. This was more of the type of information I was expecting to find online. Because online media allows for more interaction and is typically used for recreational and ease reading. Another major difference with the web was the large amount of pictures for viewing making it a much more visual experience.
Television News: For this segment I viewed both local news as well as ESPN’s SportsCenter, and the differences were evident. On the local news there was a very brief period designated to the match play tournament. There were a few quick visual clips and approximately two minutes dedicated to explaining the occurrences.
On the other hand, hours were spent this weekend on ESPN completely dedicated to the tournament, its significance and the weekend’s occurrences. This is of no surprise to me as baseball and football are in the middle of their down-time and ESPN is specifically for sports followers.
For both the local news and SportsCenter the information was most visual and the easiest to follow and understand.
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1 comment:
Good analysis. 25/25
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