When browsing through articles on the CNN site, I noticed an almost uncanny similarity throughout the pages. The articles contained all the facts, yet didn’t give any feeling towards the events. The blogs I read however were more apt to talk about the feelings of the families or people involved.

Both the CNN article and the Wake Up America blog about the trapped Utah miners give the facts about the accident and mention the famalies of the miners. The blog however uses the facts to place more emphasis on the families. The CNN article uses the facts to simply give the facts to the reader. Without directly saying it, the blog asks you to put yourself into the shoes of the families.

“The pain the families are feeling right now must be unimaginable. Not knowing for a fact one way or another and being told that they will not keep looking, the will never know if the men are really dead or not when the search has been given up.”

The writer is asking you to be human; to have feelings and to use them. In doing so, she brings a human aspect to the story, whereas the article on CNN article simply gives the facts in an almost robotic format. In the blog, you don’t get as many details and facts about the accident, but more of you become more emotionally involved.