The news event that I chose has not occurred yet. I chose the upcoming Patriots Colts match up, which is receiving a great deal of media attention. The thing that is out of the ordinary about this game is between two undefeated teams. The only two undefeated teams that remain in the NFL at this point in the season.
The online article that I selected is from usatoday.com. The article is titled Patriots versus Colts preview. The article covers a variety of different important aspects to this game. The internet article breaks down the match up based on what happens when the teams do certain things. For example it gives patriots and colts match ups for when the colts pass, when the patriots pass, when the colts run, when the patriots run, and then they breakdown the special teams and coaching match ups.
The article then goes on to give the five keys to victory for each team. They say that the Patriots must establish the run, neutralize the crowd, protect the ball, win the psychological warfare, and frustrate Peyton Manning. The keys for victory for the Colts Include defense sending a message (big play for intimidation), use a basic cover 2 in the secondary, focus on using Dallas Clark, use the run attack, and seize the moment when it presents itself.
After the keys to victory for each team are given the article goes onto make a score prediction. USAToday.com predicts that the Colts will defeat the Patriots by a score of 30-24.
The magazine article that covers this game is titled “Super Bowl XLI1/2”. The title reinforces what we learned earlier, that this match up is between the two best teams in the league. The article is out of this months sports illustrated. The article focuses on match ups similar to that of the online article, except instead of comparing offense and defense, they are comparing individual players. The key player match ups that the article covers are Randy Moss (WR) vs. Bob Sander (CB), Adalius Thomas (LB) vs. Dallas Clark (TE), Reggie Wayne (WR) vs. Asanti Samuel (CB), and Joseph Addai (RB) vs. Vince Wilfork (D. Tackle).
The article also comments briefly on the coaching match up, saying that both of the coaches are highly competitive and are expected to come fully prepared for a shootout.
Similar to the usatoday.com article Sports illustrates also gives a prediction for the games final outcome. Sports illustrated predicts that the colts will be defeated by a score of 34-27.
Online and hardcopy news have many similar properties. In the example of these two articles they cover basically the same information, just in a different way. The online article has a similar amount of information on both teams as the sports illustrated article does. Both the online and Sports illustrated article give a prediction for the games outcome.
The main difference is the form of these articles. One is tangible, and the other is virtual. Both contain news and information. The benefit to getting your news online is up to the minute updates are available, and you can check many different sources basically at the same time. The advantage to buying hardcopy news is you can have it to look at in different settings, you have a hard copy of it to save, and sometimes it is more convenient then signing onto the web and having to search for what you want.
Sources
Dan Gilmor. “Grassroots Journalism by the people, for the pople”. We the Media. July 2004
“Game repots”. Patriots.com. Accessed 10/2/2007 http://www.patriots.com/games/index.cfm?ac=gamedetails&eid=1960
“Patriots Vs. Colts Preview”. USATODAY. Accessed: 10/2/2007http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-01-17-colts-patriots-preview_x.htm
Paul Zimmerman. “Super Bowl XLI1/2”. Sports Illustrated. 1 November 2007.
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