Television News
On Wednesday March 17,1999 the television and the newspapers had a lot of stories. The television news that I watched was channel five at 12-12:30pm. The two issues of the Globe were dated March 17th and 18th, 1999.
The television starts off with a two-minute story on a soccer coach who molested eleven children. The second story was twenty seconds long. It briefed us about the merging of Fleet and Bank Boston banks. There was a twenty-five minute story on a bus driver who was drunk. Justin Barna was a boy who killed a girl with his reckless driving. That story lasted two minutes and thirty-five seconds. Then there was a one minute and thirty-five second story on a train that hit a truck. Just before they went to break, there was a story on OJ Simpson doing ads again.
There was a twenty-second introduction in which the reporter’s names were displayed with their pictures. The “Health Beat” had two stories. One was on the use of marijuana as a cure. It lasted twenty-five seconds. The other was on breast-feeding causes less stress. That lasted twenty seconds. They had a twenty-five minute story on a dog race winner and a thirty-second story on St. Patrick’s Day. Then they went to commercials.
The television’s newscast came back with the weather. Which was party sunny and could be up to 60 degrees. It lasted two minutes. Then there was a segment on Mr. Food’s Veal Oscar recipe. It also lasted 2 minutes. After that they went on to more commercials.
The news on television showed us Rebecca Cole, from Rebecca’s Garden. She was at the Bayside Expo. Center where they had the New England Flower Show. This story lasted three minutes and thirty seconds. The last part of the news was on the Louise Woodward trial.
The commercials were all thirty seconds long. There were four commercials to a break. The first break had commercials on Viennetta, Purdue cutlets, Washington apples, and Retirement homes. The next set of commercials had Chi Chi’s salsa, Weight watcher’s dieting, Create-a-meal, and international coffee. At the end, a Health plan, Toyota Cars, Attorney’s, and Jenny Craig dieting are the last commercials to air.
About three minutes was devoted to get you to keep watching. They had plugs going into stories and going into commercial breaks. Also, before the news had even started they had two commercials for the news. One lasted thirty seconds and the other a minute.
The Boston Globe on Wednesday March 17,1999 was not that much different. The front page had stories on many of the same topics. There was a picture of the train crash. To the right of the train crash a story on the Fleet-Bank Boston merge. Other stories on the front page included women’s incomes, Steve Forbes’s presidential compaign, Mayor Menino and airports, and Hospital executives bringing up the medical errors.
The head pictures on the Metro-Region section were on Officer Conley facing prison. Other stories included a Judge asking Paul Cellucci for a new place for the state’s court, the death penalty, Yao Yi government operative-guides missiles for China, and a plan to make lawn water cheaper.
On Thursday March 18,1999 the front-page stories were as follows. A picture story on how marijuana can be use to help patients, gun death of a girl, antimissile defense plan, the Leno’s helping the Feminist Majority Foundation, and the Patriots stadium.
The Metro-Region section tells us about how the camera corrupts the judicial process. The other stories included a women bank robber, an adult book-video-strip club wants to expand, the New Hampshire school tax crisis, and a story on a slave.
The television and the newspapers had some of the same stories. They both had a lot of “fill-in’s”. I think the newspaper had more actual stories than the television. Also, I think they both give you a fair sense of the world. The television lets you view the world and what is going in it. The newspaper gives you more of the story and less visual. Though, they are not supposed to be bias, they often are.
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