Dr.Graspy
Persuasion
April 13, 2017
Trump’s decision earlier this year to temporary ban refugees and immigrates from entering the united states from seven major countries in the middle east, mostly know for their Muslim population has somewhat lost the spotlight by many of the major news outlets. I recently searched up the amount of Google searches that this topic got and was surprised to see how quickly those searches dropped off. It seems like the general public mostly moved on from the issue once another major issue took it place. Perhaps that is just the nature of the news in our world today. There is, however, a few outlets that still discuss the issue, and with most news stories, competing narratives form.
One recent news story regarding Trump’s travel ban was when a Texas attorney general came out in support for Trump’s ban. He went on to lie out “constitutional and federal statutory provisions” in attempts to defend the ban after several lawsuits had arisen opposing the ban and wanting to put an end to it. Fox News and a local NBC Texas news station reported on this with quite different ways of reporting on the story. Fox News’ coverage of the story was slightly briefer than NBC’s but explained the main topic and mainly goes into the amicus brief that was filed. (Something that I didn’t expect from Fox’s article was that they actually linked the official amicus brief for their viewers to easily find) The Texas attorney general was joined in the amicus brief by several other states. The Fox News article also goes into detail about the revised travel ban and the specific details it includes. Some of these include how the revised order clears up defining issues with some of the bans more opposed sections. The Texas attorney went on to say, “ President Trump’s revised immigration order is necessary to protect the homeland from those who wish us harm.” In general Fox’s post was short but rather informative in regards to the subject matter.
NBC’s article on this story was slightly longer than Fox’s but seemed to have left out certain detailed about the story, and included others that may not have a direct correlation to this particular story. NBC mainly goes over the same general info of the story but seems to leave out a few things. Something I noticed is that NBC barely mentions the fact that other states joined with Texas in support for the ban. This could be just because this news station is Texas based and they want to simply stick to how Texas is involved in this. NBC’s article also didn’t include any link to the actual amicus brief but instead included a link to a section of the Code of Federal Regulations, which the Texas attorney general used in his remarks. One of the biggest differences I noticed between the two articles was how the information was organized. NBC’s article was quite strange in that in between every break in a paragraph, they included links to entirely different stories. One was even about how many mumps cases were in Texas. I cannot truly understand why NBC’s article would break the flow of the news article but I feel that a major part of conflicting narratives actually lies in how the information is organized and distributed.
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/10/trump-travel-ban-defended-by-15-state-coalition-led-by-texas-ag.html
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Texas-Attorney-General-Ken-Paxton-Defends-Rejected-Trump-Travel-Ban-413865603.html
