The international newspaper that I choose to talk about is the Irish Independent News. This newspaper is based in Dublin, Ireland. I chose this paper as I am part Irish and was interested to see what a main stream newspaper in Ireland would cover. The American paper that I choose to talk about was The Columbus Dispatch. This paper is a medium to large market paper that can be purchased all across the state of Ohio. I chose two different types of papers as the Irish Independent News is a national paper for those living in Ireland and The Columbus Dispatch is a state wide paper. I am interested to see what the main topics of each newspaper is and see if they have any similarities between them when it comes to covering various national news.
When visiting these two websites on the main page was news about September 11, and ground zero. This was not surprising when it came to The Columbus Dispatch as it is an American based newspaper. I was surprised though that on the Irish Independent News website, the main page read “World falls silent as Ground Zero remembers its dead” (Independent. ie, 2011). As I was expecting some type of coverage from the attacks on September 11 to be on the web page somewhere, I was not really expecting it to be on the main page. This was good to see as it showed that even overseas September 11th had an impact on them, and that it is a day of remembrance not only for Americans it is also a day of remembrance for others.
Each newspaper website had its various tabs of world news, sports, local news, classifieds, entertainment, and some others. The Irish Independent News did have a jobs tab, property, cars, and a directory tabs on home page that was different than The Columbus Dispatch. This was interesting to see as for The Columbus Dispatch in their classifieds has the property, cars, and directory tabs once you get directed to the classifieds page. This was one of the differences on how each website had their tabs differently.
On the main page of The Columbus Dispatch, the sports that were talked about were the local sports and other sports around Ohio. Irish Independent News was talking about the World Cup and rugby mainly. This was interesting as I learned the USA is playing Ireland today in the Rugby World Cup. When looking at The Columbus Dispatch there was no news on the game at all. Most of the coverage for The Columbus Dispatch was this weekend’s sporting events going on around Ohio. The main sports talked about in The Columbus Dispatch, were soccer, baseball, and football. This was different from the Irish Independent News website as futbol, hurling, golf, gaelic football, and horse racing. These sports are a different from the mainstream sports that American play.
Reference: http://www.independent.ie/
No comments:
Post a Comment