One problem facing many Bay Area residents today is the upcoming pesticide sprays that are intended to disrupt the destructive brown Apple Moth’s from reproducing. This story has appeared in several mediums including the San Francisco Chronicle, the online San Jose Mercury and NBC’s Nightly News at 11.
The article in the San Francisco Chronicle, printed February 23, 2008, was the most in-depth article I found. The article written by Jane Kay, the newspapers environmentalist writer, was displayed on the first page of the paper and continued on in depth several pages back. The article, “Swarm of bills to restrict aerial pesticide spray”, had at least five references from several professionals, state officials and residents. It also included a side chart where informational meeting are held for the public.
The news article from the San Jose Mercury website, “Apple Moth Spraying to Start this summer in SF Bay Area”, did not go as in depth as the San Francisco Chronicle. The articles are similar in that they are very informative, but the online web article was much shorter and had no extra information, charts or pictures. There were only two references from environmental agencies and it was definitely a print coverage story.
Both of the written articles were much more in-depth than the televised version. Barely reaching one minute on NBC’s Nightly News at 11; the news anchor gave sparse facts about the upcoming sprays with a quote from the Environmental Agency but not much else. There was a picture of the counties that were going to be affected by the sprays but no interviews.
Seeing this story appear in 3 different media’s all in the same day shows me that this type of hard news story is best covered in print media. There is a better ability to go into depth about this type of story than on the television. (316 words)
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Good analysis, but you've got a few AP style errors to fix:
- Apple Moths (plural, not possessive)
- the newspaper's (possessive, not plural) environmentalist writer...
- put punctuation inside quotes (The article, “Swarm of bills to restrict aerial pesticide spray," had...). See similar problem in next paragraph.
- Seeing this story appear in three (not 3) different media (or mediums, not media’s, which is possessive not plural) all in the same day...
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You need to review the rules on plurals and possessives. Here are a few online sources:
* a self-test exercise
* Patient Griselda's Grammar Guide to plural and possessives -- scroll down for the self test.
* Better English lessons -- another self test on plurals and possessives
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