Three Articles

After reading three articles: JA, The Cost Conundrum, and Heeeere´s....Conan!, it was easy to compare their styles and expression forms of the authors. To begin with, both JA and The Cost Conundrum are based, or rather, tell real life stoires, based on the experiences of the authors either wanting to solve a mystery or simply going along for a ride. Heeere´s...Conan!, instead, is based on the experience of Conan O´Brien, his beginnings and where he is going now that his contract with "Late Night" is over. Unlike the other two articles, which has a first person author, the author is in third person, adding a sense of seriousness to the piece. Even the length of the articles are very different, The Cost Conundrum being very long, expanded and detailed, followed by JA and, finally, Heeere´s Conan! with only a few paragraphs and a much lighter read. They all fall under the informative branch of journalism, the three exposing a person, a situation, or a way of life (sometimes more than one at a time). In all of them, the author uses several methods to expose this certain subject. Interviews, for example, and the use of direct quotations is a method seen in the three, an effective way of really getting to understand how the character lives, what he feels, or why a thing is the way it is. Overall, they all do a good job in getting the message across, but some make it more interesting. I was by far more engaged by the style and topic of the JA article than by The Cost Conundrum, which I did not even finish (eight pages of dullness seems a bit too much), showing that the biggest difference is the developing of the ideas: some are effective, some are not, depending on the person. The Cost Conundrum, in my eyes, failed.