Weekly News 4

Sky news is a twenty four hour international multimedia news operation based here in the United Kingdom. Aside from providing news online and on television, sky news delivers international radio news as well as radio news to commercial radio stations based locally in the Britain. Hence these news stories are reported off of serious topics regarding government politics, serious crimes, international crises’ and business politics. Sky news is one of the few big newspapers that only write articles for the public online, as this makes it easier for the public to access and saves money on print costs. The article’s main splash titles ‘Israel: Two Killed After Gunman Opens Fire’. This gives us very little detail on what the gunman actually looks like, if not, no detail at all and is very specific about what they’re talking about. I believe it’s done in this way because its short and easy for the reader to grab attention and seems as if an Israeli is the gunman which makes the article seem more intriguing as it may be a local crime in Israel.

The news agenda for this news website would be to do with crime and international crime as most of the news reported on the homepage relate to crime. The sub-heading of the article which states “An attacker, thought to be a Palestenian, has opened fire at a bus station in the Israeli city of Beersheba” is an accurate summary of the events of which are reported within the article. Reading the sub-heading  alone gives Palestenian people a bad name, as this is nothing but speculation with no evidence that the man is Palestenian which may provoke negativity towards their ethnic group on an international scale. This is there to tempt the reader to continue reading in an effort for the reader to gain more information on the topic and for the website to gain more money from readers looking at advertisements on the page, such as the ‘Promoted Stories’. This works as once the reader has finished scrolling down the page, they’re presented with more articles of interest located on other websites.

In the bodytext of the article, we learn through the information provided to us that this killing comes since Isreal had tightened their security around the country and have constructed a barrier separating Jews and Arab neighbourhoods in the east of Jerusalem as well as the government imposing restrictions on the ‘al Asqa Mosque’. We can deduct that the cause of this crime was religious related since most of the tension seems to be coming from the two opposing religions; Jews and Arabs. 




http://news.sky.com/story/1571739/israel-two-killed-after-gunman-opens-fire