Tuesday, October 19, 2010
USA Today, The New York Times and MSNBC all report on the Chilean Miners Struggle after the Rescue
The Chilean Miners have been rescued! If you have yet to realize that then you must be living under a rock. Every news station around the world has been covering this event on both the local and global levels. The articles I choose to examine came from the USA TODAY, The New York Times, and MSNBC, all of these articles are focused on the Chilean miners and their struggle now after being rescued after 68 days underground. The struggle and frustration is occurring because the miners all made a pact to not talk about the worst things that happened while they were down there to reporters because it is not fair for some of the men to profit and for others not to. The reports always find the stories that are the most emotional and the media is trying to create drama around some of the 33 miners. The main point that I want to address is the importance and significance that pact journalism is playing in these miners lives as well as in the lives of all the people around the world who are constantly being bombarded with this story. Pack journalism is when journalists all cover the same “big news stories” focused on the same topics and are essentially making it so that viewers and readers have to consider this event extremely important and relevant to their daily news intake.
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I think this is a good example of pack journalism but also of framing. All three of these articles focus on the pact made by the miners not to discuss their worst experiences while in the mine with the media. Priming is how the media decides to cover an event issue and how to interpret and organize the story (78). Rather than focusing on how the mine collapsed, speculate about the possible health issue that the miners may be suffering from, or the procedure that will be used to rescue the miners all three media outlets have focused on the pact and the ‘secret’ information we will never know. The media has organized and interpreted this event around the pact.
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