Thursday, November 1, 2007

"Love on the Lam"

Prompt B, yo (this might be short, but still):

Video (it's called "Love on the Lam"):
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html


Text:
http://www.pr-inside.com/police-searching-for-nebraska-teacher-and-r279330.htm



Both the video and the text give you facts, but the video seems to prefer giving the facts that will "shock" you. It just gives one blow after another: "He's 13 and she's 25." "They've run off." "We've found love letters." "OH MY GOD, THEY'RE GOING TO MEXICO."

The text presents the facts, regardless of shock value. It mentions the fact that the teacher may have given the boy a cell phone, for instance. This isn't as exciting as seeing a face and hearing awful things but it's more balanced.

With printed word news companies can give all the facts, rather than the most exciting ones or the ones that will sell advertisement slots.

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