Monday, March 26, 2012

Blog #2: Feature News Story Vs Hard News Story

22 children at the Sint-Lambertus School in Heverlee, Belgium along with six adults died where a bus crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Southern Switzerland. The children were on it's way back from a annual ski trip for the last year of elementary school. According to Ms, Emmers, who was volunteering at a community center, "The kids save up the money all by themselves for their last year, selling things, running bingo sessions and so on." It was a sad day.It's a featured news story because the writer added his opinion into the beginning of the article in order to catch the reader's attention. Not everyone would say that the children at the Stekske Elementary school would dream from first grade on about the annual ski trip to the Alps.

Worker who hid lottery win must share 38.5 million prize with five other co-workers.They all worked together for this highway construction company. The friends from New Jersey has pooled their money for lottery tickets for years. Five of them relied on a member of their group, Americo Lopez to buy the tickets. In November 2009, he bought a mega million ticket with that money and told no one but lottery officials. He quit his job after and told his friends that he needed foot surgery and they believed him. Several months later he told another man in a group that he won and the news spread on to the other members of the group. A jury in Union Country ordered Mr.Lopes to share the winnings with the five former co-workers. It's a hard news story because it emphasis on ancedotes, telling stories and describing episodes in Mr. Lopes life. It also has the most important information on top, characterized by the five W's, who, what, where, when and why. It's organized Ina different way to, you have more information tied together rather than a descending linear development of information.

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