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Breaking News MH370
"We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts with flight MH370 which departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am earlier this morning bound for Beijing."
"The flight was carrying a total number of 239 passengers and crew – comprising 227 passengers (including 2 infants), 12 crew members. The passengers were of 13 different nationalities. “
News Values: New news, Shock,
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It does not go into a whole lot of depth since this is breaking news and entais only the information regarding the event that has happened. It does not try to spark human interest, it serves as an immediate write up of what has happened. -
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The article goes into quite bit of depth of how Diance Weeks is coping. It pays great attention to her saddening quotes and love for her husband. They go into detail of how she has been coping since and before the disappearance, often focusing on her despair. This sparks human interest in her sadness and how terrible it is for a wife to be widowed from a plane crash. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11216852 -
Missing plane: 'Miss you already' - Lost Kiwi's last text
Missing youQuotes: Prime Minister John Key says it's unfortunate the wife of a New Zealand man missing aboard.
A devastated Mrs Weeks managed to get only an hour's sleep at the weekend after discovering her husband's plane was missing.
News Values: Human interest, Proximity, People and prominence
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Relatives Struggle to Cope
Struggle to copeQuote: "Biggest of all is the emotional turmoil I've been going through. I can't eat, I can't sleep. I've been dreaming of my parents every day,''
News Values: Human Interest, Visual impact
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The depth of the article goes into how each of the families are trying to cope and their despair for this disappearance. It details into quotes said by the relatives and includes a sad tone. "Give us back our loved ones.'' And similar quotes were included in the article to make people aware of their sandess. IT did go into a bit of depth surrounding the families. -
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Depth: Because it's just about a tweet they didn't go into too much depth. It covers how the families would've felt about this tweet and how this affected his image. -
MH370 Disappearance 'blesing in disguise'
Blessing in disguise
Quotes: Malaysia's defence minister has sparked outrage after agreeing the tragedy of missing MH370 flight was a 'blessing in disguise'.
It is widely believed the controversy over MH370 has scuppered his chances of succeeding his cousin, Malaysia's prime minister
News Values: Controversy
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Depth: The article tells why they want to find the black box, and gives descriptions on what the black box is, how it is likely to survive and what went wrong in the event. -
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Black Box
Quotes: It should record the last 25 hours of flight operation with a minimum requirement to measure data across five areas:
It's an extremely sturdy piece of equipment and will survive almost any kind of crash. It's placed at the back of the aircraft as generally aircraft crash nose-first.
News Values: Unusualness. It seems extremely unsual for this black box to not be found. It not being found will create a sense of panic.
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MH370: Signals come from black box
Quotes: For the fifth time in recent days, an underwater sensor detected a signal in the same swath of the southern Indian Ocean, raising hopes that searchers are closing in on what could be a flight recorder from the missing Malaysian jet.
Australia prime minister Tony Abbott says authorities are confident a series of underwater signals detected in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean are coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
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Signals Black box link
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Depth: This article hasn’t gone into much depth and is just shouting random questions. They have no actual hard evidence on this report and the fact that the placement is on an online news article, on a relatively unknown website makes it seem like a hoax. The article is also underneath the tab, conspiracy theories. The video beneath only theorises in the landing and provides no evidence at all, displaying it is all a hoax. Loses reliability on media and this news site.! -
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“Shock! MH370 Landed Say Officials! Where Are All The Survivors?”
Quote - WHY are we just finding out that this plane MAY HAVE LANDED now? WHAT happened to the survivors of Flight MH370! Headline “Shock! MH370 Landed Say Officials! Where Are All The Survivors?”! News Values: shock value, controversy, unusualness, mystery, breaking news, hoax! Implications: debate and discussion! -
MH370: Families' meeting with airline turns hostile!
"I have been asking, indeed begging Malaysia and Malaysian Airlines to bring my son back. I miss my son" Tensions boiled over at yesterday's briefing, with some relatives saying they were on a "hunger strike”! News Values: bad news, human interest! Implications: forming public opinion, representation/stereotype of the families all being incredibly mad.! -
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Depth: The article doesn't go into much depth and only exclaims on the families anger to protest. The fact that it includes “families”, which includes the families that did not turn hostile make it seem like all of the families went crazy and protested. This sparks human interest, supporting the common opinion of parents that they would indeed get angry at the government if their son/daughter had simply disappeared. Depth is not very much and is simply there just to spark interest.! -
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Missing aircraft flight number on car plates!
Quotes: The sale of plates related to world events — both joyful and tragic — was common! News Values: Uniqueness, Human interest, Visual Impact! Implications: Forming public opinion on the number plate! Depth: Does not go into much depth, shows the price of the car plate and the person who got it and their location. It is a rather light hearted article and is rather unique.! -
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Girlfriend of MH370 passenger getting death threats, FBI called in!
News Values: Shock value, bad news, human interest, unusualness, Proximity(indiatoday.intoday.in)! Implications: Forming public opinion! Depth: Goes into depth of Sarah Bajc’s current situation and her struggles throughout the threats. Details the type of threats and how she got robbed two week after the flight went missing. The FBI in the headline sparks human interest. This article is there to show some of the relatives and close peoples sort of struggle after the flight went missing. ! -
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MH370 search to cost $90m!
News Values: Shock value, controversy, bad news, proximity(to australia and their government having to pay)! Implications: Forming public opinion, debate and discussion.! Depth: Does not go into much depth. Basically details that the government will be having to pay a heavy amount for this search effort. Quick and easy information on an online article placement. ! -
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'Planes don't just disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister accuses CIA of covering up what really happened to flight MH370!
'It's a bizarre scenario which none of us could have contemplated so that's why when I met the team...of foremost experts in aviation industry I asked them again and again "are you sure?"'! News Values: Conspiracy, Shock value, Controversy! Implications: Forming public opinion, debate and discussion! -
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Depth: Goes into depth on how the “influential” prime minister accuses the CIA of not providing all the necessary data. Includes random pictures and other prominent people commenting on MH370 even though it does not relate to the article that much. Basically this article is here to serve for human interest and for people to visit their site and view surrounding articles on this issue. Displays controversial quotes said by people. -
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Karl Stefanovic blasts author of 'disgusting' MH370 book which claims passengers 'died in terror in a flaming wreck' during heated TV interview
Quotes: A visibly enraged Stefanovic began the interview with Cawthorne, the first person to write a book about the disappearance of flight MH370, with the challenge: 'some are saying this book is way too soon’. News values: Controversy, Human interest, Shock value Implications: Debate and discussion, Forming public opinion -
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Depth: The media hasn’t gone into much depth as it is a one off controversial event. The media bashes on the author of the book and exclaims they are heartless. This sparks human interest and controversy. The shock of someone already making a book and assuming the plane has already crashed and they are all dead -
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