Daily Mail Article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3348199/Have-greenhouse-gases-peaked-politicians-battle-reach-deal-Paris-climate-talks-CO2-levels-falling.html Bangor Daily News Article: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/12/06/environment/tough-decisions-ahead-as-paris-climate-talks-enter-next-phase/ During these blog posts I like to compare articles from different countries, because I believe it shows a bigger contrast. For the discussion of Paris climate talks, I have chosen to compare the Daily Mail from the United Kingdom to the Bangor Daily News from the great state of Maine. In these two articles you will notice that one of them uses no forms of multimedia, so immediately I have to assume that this was just in the newspaper, and not designed to be on the Internet. Then you recognize that two people wrote the article from the Bangor Daily News. Why couldn’t one of them work on multimedia or developing charts using statistics rather than just helping the other write the article? Now if you take a look at the Daily Mail’s article you will notice only one person wrote the article, and it is filled with multimedia, and this article was also engaging journalism. The first chart shows the rise in CO2 emissions in France over the past 50 years. The chart also goes all the way to 2050 to try show that CO2 emissions that have hit their peak, and that France is aiming to lower CO2 emissions. The Bangor Daily News maybe has a better-written thought out document, but the battle of which would a person rather read than the Daily Mail takes the cake. The Daily Mail has also chosen to include a 43 second video of David Cameron, a former British Prime Minister, delivering a speech at the Paris summit. Along with that they included an interesting graphic on the right side that reads, “Arnold Schwarzenegger joins climate change talks in Paris.” Then they explain why he is there, and a couple of insightful quotes from the former governor of California. A governor I like to call, “The Governator,” just a small joke… Then the Daily Mail does something awesome at the end of the article. They include a blue box that reads, “Key points of the COP21 climate change conference in Paris.” This is brilliant to anyone that reads the article, and has the question well what does this all mean? It lets the reader know who is at the conference, what the summit is trying to achieve, what the success rate is, and then finally miscellaneous information from the conference that everyone should know. I cannot stress enough how awesome this last part of the article is, this blue box is perfect for anyone that may not have the time to read the entire original article. I believe it is really creative to put something like this in the article. One part of the blue box I believed to be very interesting was the fact that 183 of 195 nations have issued long-term plans for tackling climate change. They are using those other nations as building blocks for Paris’ new plan. No Al Gore at this event though, so maybe the writers of South Park are correct and he’s out there looking for a mystical creature named man-bear-pig.
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