MMJ Assignment #1

Kassandra LopezThe article that I chose is from the New York Times. The incident, which happened onlyyesterday (Saturday, September 14) included two women wounded due to lack of police aim,while firing at a man. The article described the man as being “agitated”, and witnesses claimedthat the man was running towards cars and running about on the streets. What caused thepolice to fire was not the person, but the fact that the man mimicked the motion of taking a gun.However, this ended wounding two women, from which one is in bad condition.The article was very interesting. It has three medium which are very useful to me while readingarticles on the web. For example, it has an interactive section, in which you can either print,email or share this article.Although I was looking for a comment section, surprisingly enough,this article did not seem to have any.The article also includes pictures, which are cleverly put on the side so as to avoid distractionswhile reading. I’m unsure however, on whether to like this idea of pictures on the side or not.When I read, I prefer to have the pictures as I read, instead of trying to look for them all over thepage.A video is also included on this article, though it was hard for me to find at first. Usually, when Iread an article, the video is there, right on the page where all you have to do is click and watch it.Sometimes, the video tells the story for you without needing to read the article at all. However, Ifound it curious (and I was a little frustrated) to notice the video was linked to a youtube page. IfI hadn’t gone back to the article, I probably wouldn’t have noticed where the video link was.Although I was somewhat annoyed by the lack of immediate video/picture footage, I think this issomething that I can get used to. I haven’t seen many (or any articles) where pictures are on theside or videos are linked out of the page and I think this is a good thing. You’re concentrated onreading the article, sometimes its good not to get too distracted, to get the most out of it. I likedthe text and that the story went right to the point.As for media coverage, I don’t think I would change anything, as I thought the writer did a greatjob at explaining the situation. I hope that when they update (if at all), we know more of the twowounded women.


Article:

New York Times Article

Photo of wounded lady/Twitter of uploader.