The life changing coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has nearly thrown the nation into a recession.
President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus package to hopefully fight the economic downturn that has swept the nation.
Various media formats have covered this major event.
The print version of The Wall Street Journal featured the story on their front page.
The article was about six paragraphs in length on the front page and 26 on its own dedicated page.
On the front page there was only one quote but on the story’s own page it had nine including partial quotes.
On the story’s own page in the newspaper there is a photo of the USNS Mercy Navy hospital ship.
There was only one article in this newspaper however it was only partial on the first page and then continued later on its own page.
CBS also featured the story on broadcast television in its “Eye Opener” segment.
The segment claims to be 90 seconds in the intro but the entire segment ran two minutes and three seconds.
Besides the network’s own reporters seven sources are quoted in the segment.
The segment featured only a brief summarization of what happened and then a quote from the president.
Compared to the newspaper which went in-depth into the conflict involved in the signing of the package the broadcast segment was too brief.
Business Insider also featured this story online in a way that was more concise than the newspaper but went into less detail and featured only one quote.
The story is about nine paragraphs long and had an additional three bullet points.
Paragraphs in both the online story and newspaper had minimal sentences.
The online story appeared to have four sources and was closer to the print coverage than the broadcast coverage but was significantly shorter and had less information.
The broadcast coverage from CBS seemed to have the least information and was just a brief touch on the subject while the online and newspaper coverage gave the readers enough information to form their own opinions.
Antonio Carrillo 100W 