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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Week 7 Class presentation: Citizen journalism - crisis events & conflict zones
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Week 7: The Devil Calls
2 articles: SBS and The Daily Telegraph - 30/08/10
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1339902/Heffernan-says-he-s-the-caller
SBS’s article, “Heffernan says he’s the caller”, leads on naturally from their earlier story “Oakeshott receives ‘devil’ call”. A call was made to Independent MP Rob Oakeshott’s phone, with the caller identifying himself as “the devil”. The story reveals that the mystery caller was Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan.
The gravity of the incident is further outlined with the mention of Oakeshott’s role as one of the independents holding sway over which party will form government. We are told that Oakeshott believes there is a smear campaign against him, and that Tony Abbott has reassured him that the Liberals aren’t being underhanded.
Oakeshott’s quotes emphasise how high the stakes are, especially when he suggests the Liberals are destabilising the situation to “send everyone back to the polls, to spend $50 million of taxpayers’ money." The SBS article reveals further tensions when Liberal senator Mitch Fifield deflects the attention back to Labor, claiming they are in “disarray”. The article is informative and plays to an adversarial angle, which is very effective in the context of the political stalemate.
The Daily Telegraph article places more emphasis on the specifics of the phone call. The headline: “Liberal devil came calling, apologises to Rob Oakeshott for devil prank on pregnant wife” is intriguing, and likely to grab readers’ attention.
The story also gives background on Senator Heffernan, and, similar to the SBS story, highlights political tensions. However, The Daily Telegraph article further underscores the turbulent state of politics when it informs us that another independent, Tony Windsor, also received a threatening call from a Liberal MP.
Both articles broach the subject well but The Daily Telegraph’s adversarial approach is more comprehensive, translating to more impact. Along with its use of a photo slideshow, links to related coverage and a comments section – as opposed to the complete absence of multimedia in the
**Please note: shortly after submitting this blog, the SBS article changed online to: "The devil and Rambo join negotiations". The new article is significantly different to the one I analysed (Heffernan says he's the caller"), but I did save the text from the original article in a Word document.
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