8 Year Old Boy Killed by Truck While Riding on a Pocket Bike
On KTVU-TV Channel 2 Mike Mibach covered a story on the Saturday morning
news about the death of an 8 year old boy who was struck by a truck the
evening before in a residential neighborhood in San Jose.
The total length of this news story from the second Mibach starts
talking until the live shot signs off was one minute and five seconds in
length.
Ten seconds into the news story Mibach introduces Alex Savidge who is
live on the scene where police are investigating the death.
Savidge is standing in front of the memorial where family and neighbors
have placed flowers and candles in memory of the boy who died.
After the camera pans away from the memorial on the street corner it shows random shots of police cars in the middle of the street and yellow police tape.
Savage explains that the boy was not wearing a helmet while riding the pocket bike and darted out into the street without looking.
I feel that KTVU well represented this story and told me all the facts I wanted to hear while including some cool live shots from the scene of the accident.
‘Pocket Bike’ Death Puts Focus on Law, Safety
In the San Jose Mercury News on the bottom fold of the front of the local news section there was an article written by Robert Salonga that totaled 30 column inches and spilled over to the middle of page B9.
On the front page there was a small photo two inches tall by three inches wide of the memorial on the street that was shown on the KTVU-TV news.
Below the lead is a subtitle in a larger font than the article that states “Boy, 8, was riding mini motorcycle and was hit by a pickup.”
On page B9 they included a photo of a pocket bike next to a real motorcycle with the weight, top speed, retail cost, and measurements in height & length so readers who are not familiar with the mini bike would have a better understanding as to how small they really are.
There are a total of five quotes in this story which come from an educational consultant, a police sergeant and a California Highway Patrol officer.
I feel that this article gave me the necessary facts about the accident, and then went into more detail about the type of motorcycle the boy crashed on than KTVU-TV did.
Child on Pocket Bike Struck, Killed in SJ
On the NBC Bay Area website Lori Preuitt published an article to the local news section with a subtitle beneath the lead which says “A Friday night playing outside turned deadly for a San Jose child.”
The story was extremely short with a total of 125 words which was broken into six paragraphs.
The main photo features cops cars at night with their red flasing lights on and yellow tape around them which grabbed my attention.
Preuitt then featured a Google map with a pinpoint of the location where the accident happened.
I felt this article was extremely short for such a tragic story and it could have done a better job at investigating.
For reference here is a link to the article: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Child-on-Razor-Struck-Killed-in-San-Jose-169869816.html
Comparing all of the articles I feel that the television broadcast was the best of them all, they had all the facts and showed live shots.
Even though the San Jose Mercury News went into great detail about what a pocket bike is, I’m already well aware of what they’re, so all of that information was unnecessary for me to read.
The worst story of them all was the internet story found on the NBC news website.
After the camera pans away from the memorial on the street corner it shows random shots of police cars in the middle of the street and yellow police tape.
Savage explains that the boy was not wearing a helmet while riding the pocket bike and darted out into the street without looking.
I feel that KTVU well represented this story and told me all the facts I wanted to hear while including some cool live shots from the scene of the accident.
‘Pocket Bike’ Death Puts Focus on Law, Safety
In the San Jose Mercury News on the bottom fold of the front of the local news section there was an article written by Robert Salonga that totaled 30 column inches and spilled over to the middle of page B9.
On the front page there was a small photo two inches tall by three inches wide of the memorial on the street that was shown on the KTVU-TV news.
Below the lead is a subtitle in a larger font than the article that states “Boy, 8, was riding mini motorcycle and was hit by a pickup.”
On page B9 they included a photo of a pocket bike next to a real motorcycle with the weight, top speed, retail cost, and measurements in height & length so readers who are not familiar with the mini bike would have a better understanding as to how small they really are.
There are a total of five quotes in this story which come from an educational consultant, a police sergeant and a California Highway Patrol officer.
I feel that this article gave me the necessary facts about the accident, and then went into more detail about the type of motorcycle the boy crashed on than KTVU-TV did.
Child on Pocket Bike Struck, Killed in SJ
On the NBC Bay Area website Lori Preuitt published an article to the local news section with a subtitle beneath the lead which says “A Friday night playing outside turned deadly for a San Jose child.”
The story was extremely short with a total of 125 words which was broken into six paragraphs.
The main photo features cops cars at night with their red flasing lights on and yellow tape around them which grabbed my attention.
Preuitt then featured a Google map with a pinpoint of the location where the accident happened.
I felt this article was extremely short for such a tragic story and it could have done a better job at investigating.
For reference here is a link to the article: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Child-on-Razor-Struck-Killed-in-San-Jose-169869816.html
Comparing all of the articles I feel that the television broadcast was the best of them all, they had all the facts and showed live shots.
Even though the San Jose Mercury News went into great detail about what a pocket bike is, I’m already well aware of what they’re, so all of that information was unnecessary for me to read.
The worst story of them all was the internet story found on the NBC news website.
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