Jeter Reaches 3,000 Hits with Home Run
Suzy Allman for The New York Times
With his teammates cheering, Derek Jeter runs the bases after hitting his 3,000th hit -- a solo home run -- in the third inning.
This article is focused on Derek Jeter's 3000th hit making Yankee History. It refers not only to the Derek Jeter success but on other players who have hit the 3000 mark. Using statistics and comparison, the article compares how Jeter's accomplishments differ or are similar to other star athletes. They also give a brief overview of his career.
The newspaper is published daily but the online version can be published throughout the day. This story in specific has been going on a few weeks back leading to this main even. There is still some news revolving around this now being one month after main event.
Television
Derek Jeter Makes Baseball History
This newscast provided by ABCNews on youtube provides a segment of the game where Jeter hit his 3k Hit. Unlike the newspaper, this media focuses on the actual moment he hit the magical home run. They also focus on the fan that caught that HR which later gives ball back to Jeter. News are usually reported daily but some can have breaking news sometimes. This even also lead to the exposure of the fan's personal life and his issues with IRS which caused more news relating to Jeter's memorable moment.
Blog
Derek Jeter's March to 3,000 Hits
Jayson Stark's Blog on ESPN is a little more personal opinion mixed with facts. The previous two mass media examples focused more on facts and statistics dealing with the event. This blog gives those statistics and facts but it also gives Starsk's opinion as an expert. This blog was a timeline of events leading to the 3k hit and after the 'water' has settled.
Social Media
Derek Jeter Official Fan Page
On his facebook page, Derek Jeter fans constantly update other people on what is going on in Jeter's professional career. Facebook also has user-generated content. Other fans who like this page are able to post pictures of Jeter and post comments of their personal thoughts and opinions. In here, you can find Jeter's accomplishments throughout the year of his athletic career. If you go to this page, you will find recent event that are going on dealing with the 3k Hit. You find links to otehr sources that deal with same topic.
Analysis
1. All of these examples use social media to a certain extent. In the newspaper, there are gadgets that let you log in to your facebook or twitter and share the story with your friend/followers. The Facebook page also uses social media even though it is a social media itself. In Facebook, you are allowed to link your twitter or Foursquare therefore you can tag Derek Jeter in you twits or posts. By doing this, many audience members who for example do not read the newspaper or watch tv news, can have access to media cover storied. This can be good and bad because eventhough people do get access to these stories through social media, the channel has more "noise" because it now includes the opinion of the person who posted that news on the social network.
2.The facts and statistics shared on the Newspaper article and the Blog were very similar. They both felt like they knew what they were talking about and had a greta amount of knowledge regarding the subject. In both channels they have section for users to comment. This can be helpful in a chance they were to ever post up something incorrect, the user can notify them and clear it up. The Television channel focused more on concrete evidence. They interviewed Derek Jeter and the Fan who caught the ball. Many viewers claim that this is the most credible channel because they are hearing it straight from the source. The Social Media is less credible to a certain extent. Although you can upload videos from newscast or upload a link from a newspaper, most of the content is public opinion. Many individuals can easily post untrue events or fake links to made up stories they published. You have to be more careful with social media when it comes to credibility and accuracy.
3.There is definitely a difference about the online and hardcopy media source. For example, the blog is through a writer from ESPN. In this blog, he inputs statistics and facts shared in the cover story usually given on television. He also shared his personal thoughts and beliefs regarding the event that is going on. On television, they do state their opinion but it is fairly regulated.
In the blog, people are allowed to comment about it at the exact page, but on the television show they have to go to their online website to post feedback.
The shows on ESPN are regulated by segments. If you wake up early at 7am and watch for 3 hours, you will notice that the news are repeated every 30 minutes. This gives a chance for viewers to catch the news at their convenience. If not you can catch it online but it will not be the full story but The online version gives only a certain amount of free access. After that, you have to subscribe and pay a fee to see the full stories. With the blog, the blogger writes a blog when the can or are able to and you may now know when that will be.
4. Citizen journalism can be ok BUT not great. Yes it is true, want to see events from the general publics perspective but to what extent? There are events where people trespass into people's homes just to get an exclusive, they are called paparazzi. As it is, these individuals are considerent "unethical journalists" so what would be a definition of a person who captures images of someone famous eating their lunch like a slob? We all love the exclusives and getting to know our favorite celebrities in a personal level but do we think about whre the line is drawn?
Mos of us can watch the news, read a blog, watch tv, log in to Facebook/Twitter, but what do we find most credible? For me is the news and television. A blog has unedited information which can or cannot be filled with facts and statistics from a credible source. A blog or social network do not have guidelines or rules and regulations to follow thefore how do we know we can trust them with what they say?
A viewer can send in a video they captured while in LAX where Derek Jeter punched an airport worker (not true story). they only film when the attack occured but they do not film what happened before to get him mad or what occured after. Does this make a video ethical news? I do not think so.
Recently, we have witnessed how many celebrities and other people get in trouble because of these "citizen journalists".
An example is Cathy Cruz aka Fountain Lady. A couple of securities decided to record a surveillance video from a mall. They filmed the lady texting and falling into a fountain. Due to this post on youtube and the many hits, the television news began showing it on their shows making a big deal of a random lady falling. What was so amusing? Well due to these 'kind' security guards that videotaped her, it is now well known that she was wanted by the police for fraud and other things. Think, if these so called "citizen journalists" never posted the video, her personal business would not have been open for the public to mock.
Colbert Report: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/19/5878994-texting-at-funerals-ok-by-stephen-colbert
Video: http://youtu.be/jPW8xmI4w6U
