The four online news sites I followed through out this course are very different from each other. They have a few similarities but nothing major. ABC News covers more of whats going on around the world and focuses more on important issues. What I notice the most about this site is how it revolves around politics, natural disasters, and hard news such as the Arizona tragedy that happened on January 8th. Also ABC News tells stories that benefit everyone around the world not just one area or things that they feel are going to interest people. ABC News has a lot of links to different categories and doesn't lack information; every story has proof whether it's photos or witnesses.
Victorville Daily press news site also has a links to world/nation news but doesn't have that many sources. It mainly focuses on things that have made an impact around the world. This site is more about their local news and sharing it with people from this community. It may also have many links to other news stories but they don't have as many options as ABC News does. What I also notice is that the Daily Press keeps the same news stories for a couple of days on the main web page. I'm not sure if it's to keep people informed just in case they didn't log on before or if it's because there isn't really anything interesting going on.
Mouse Planet is a travel news site it gives you the latest information about Disney. It can be from a new attraction at the theme parks or just a story about an old tale. There is sections divided up for Disneyland and Disney World that way local people benefit from knowing what's going on in a certain part. There is nothing on world news, politics, entertainment, or anything of serious issues for that matter. It's focus is on having fun and vacations. How you can get deals and save money. Very different from Daily Press and ABC News.
The blog site I chose was Old Picture of the day. It wasn't updated everyday till the 13th and it's been a while since a new picture has been uploaded. There is pictures from between the 1920's and 1960's and everyone has a story to it thanks to the author. His news focused more on the photograph and giving his followers information on these old school pictures. Rather than uploading recent pictures that are all over news sites because it's recent events that are occurring. This blog site was different and took a different challenge.
Something that these four news sites have in common can be the use of photography, videos, quotes, and any other type of proof to back up their stories. They all want to give some information of what they think is important to share with others. For the most part I felt that every site has a different way of presenting articles to the people and have their preferences on what they feel people need to know. Even if it's about the same things news site base their writing on who they know is interested on reading every link attached to their web page.
Sites:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/
http://old-photos.blogspot.com/
http://www.vvdailypress.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/
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