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'Disaster in the Alps' - comparing and analysing how the Times, Mirror and American magazine Newsweek reported a catastrophe that took place five years ago.
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Comparing news reports- 'Disaster in the Alps' In this essay I will be comparing and analysing how the Times, Mirror and American magazine Newsweek reported a catastrophe that took place five years ago; the following is a brief delineation. On February 3rd 1998 in Calvalese Northern Italy, an EA-6B Prowler American training aircraft from an airbase in Aviano severed the cable holding a cable car going up Mount Cermis. The twenty occupants fell three hundred feet to their deaths at 3.25 pm. The wing of the aircraft sliced through the cable, however the pilots failed to realise and the reason they were at that altitude has since been shrouded in some controversy. The articles differ somewhat in how they convey and view the incident. The tabloid takes a predominantly pro-British view, at times slightly denigrating the Americans portraying a bias view. Whilst politics is pushed aside, human interests stories are paramount and efficacious...
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