Flight 370

Although the initial disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 was almost two month ago, the topic is still being covered by most news sources. Overall, the most recent updates found on various sites are more or less centered around either conspiracy theories or Malaysian misconducts. Both Fox News and NPR have articles mostly involving the sketchiness of the situation whereas CNN contains mostly articles criticizing Malaysian officials. On the other hand, the Huffington Post's most recent articles on the missing plane are almost all attacks on the coverage done by CNN and Fox News:

The Huffington Post on Fox News

The above article contains an unnecessarily sassy critique of a segment done by Fox News in which they connected the missing flight to Benghazi. The opening sentence of the article sets the tone: "it was only a matter of time before Fox News managed to bring the Flight 370 story back to its favorite topic of all time: Benghazi." The connotation of the phrase was obviously that of sass and sarcasm. The intention was to make the Huffington Post seem better by ragging on the commonly ragged on Fox news. But in trying to make fun of Fox News, The Huffington Post was the source that ultimately came across as unprofessional. A good news source should be professional and unbiased and actually report news rather than making fun of other news sources.

The other sources researched were much more professional. The NPR site seemed a lot more upstanding. The following is a link to one of the articles I read on what NPR most recently reported on Flight 370:

NPR on Flight 370

Contrary to the Huffington Post, NPR actually reported on the flight. It also contained interviews of relevant sources, such as the proffesor of media at the university of Beijing and also a Chinese lawyer who specializes in airplane incidents. The credible interviews made NPR seem legitimate and a news source worthy of returning.

CNN also came across pretty respectable and well informed. However, in some articles the word choice was a bit unnecessary (i.e: brevity, snafu, erroneous). The frivolous words made CNN seem like it was trying a little too hard to seem academic (issue would have been just as effective as snafu). In trying to do so the article mainly came across as being too wordy and kind of annoying.

CNN on Flight 370

Lastly, Fox News seemed to only offer articles based on rumors, gossip, and hearsay as opposed to more factual reports, sometimes focusing on stories with little relevance to Flight 370. For example, one article contained a theory that the Australian government was involved in the missing plane. Other articles were hung up on small details that didn't really need to be dissected in such lengths as they were. The articles that were on topic seemed fine and well researched but they were hard to find buried in masses of irrelevant information.