Components of the Story

Recently, in the news, there have been some scares at airports. There have been terrorist attacks, there have been passengers getting charged more for their luggage, and security breaches. Airports have decreased in popularity. People all over the country have looked to other ways of transportation. FoxNews.com and CNN.com are both nation-wide news stations. They report on mostly the same stories and have very distinct differences within their reporting. One current event, released earlier this week, was about the JFK Airport security breach. Looking at two different news sources, on the same event, it was found that one source was more complete than the other.

There is a lot to be said about the accuracy of this event. Both news sources focus on the facts of the full, complete story. FoxNews.com differs from other competition by interviews people that were affected by the breach. These people were at the airport and delayed because of the security breach. It was interesting to find that only women were interviewed, one woman saying, “All those doors that you’re not supposed to go through should have a guard or security” (Carrasoqillo, 2010). By putting these small interviews, you can feel the stress and the frustration from passengers. This provides some insight as to why this event is traumatic and important. The brevity of both articles represents their direct and clear reporting of the event. By keeping the article brief and straight forward information, readers can get information quickly and accurately.

Carrasoquillo, A. (Photographer). (2010). Suspect in JFK Airport Security Breach Arrested. [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583197,00.html

Both articles are well written and have full attribution to the event. When reading the articles you can clearly identify what happened and why might the suspect have acted the way he did. Not that there was really to debate. In Terminal C, in JFK Airport, the suspect is 28 year-old Haison Jiang, who “ducked under a rope and walking the wrong way through security to greet a women” (Susana, 2010). To anyone ignorant to airports, this looks to have been a misunderstanding. However, the United States does not take lightly to misunderstandings. The CNN.com takes an approach that provides this alibi to the suspect, thus giving an unfair balance for his mistake. The authors don’t add any of their own interpretation toward the event. They keep the objectivity to hitting the straight facts and representing their equality and not bias to either the misunderstanding of neither the suspect nor the airports position on security.

Susana, M. (2010). Security Breach at JFK Airport Causes Delay. [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/16/new.york.jfk.breach/index.html?iref=allsearch

This event has become a human interest. People are always changing their minds and ideas because of situations that happen in the news or what they observe from other’s mistakes. This situation at an airport could happen again unless people understand what happened and why it was a misunderstanding. People are influenced very easily by their observations. By observing what is right and wrong, they will learn how to survive in the changing world.