After Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton kneed down before the law for her drug possession. Paris pleaded guilty in Las Vegas this week. She fortunately avoided being kept in jail again. Here is two reports concerning Paris case.
From AP (pulled on Forbes.com): http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/09/20/entertainment-us-paris-hilton-arrest_7942915.html
From Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/21/1834487/paris-hilton-yes-i-was-carrying.html
Comparing the news title, I prefer the one of Miami Herald. It tells in the first person instead of an objective angle, which is more eye-catching for a less formal entertainment report.
Coming to the story, I find the Miami one is totally crap. It starts with Paris case, yet words about the case just lasts 4 short paragraphs and than turns to other Hollywood celebrities’ drug scandals. Readers can get little information about the case from the text; it just wastes our time. Though its content doesn’t deserve attention, its layout is worth mentioning. The extra aids about the news are gathered in an information box on the left side, including picture gallery, case video and related content. They will help readers to get an overall view about the story. Unfortunately, excellent extra cannot make up the awkwardness in the original story. The Miami Herald piece is not favorable.
The one presented by AP is much better. It is a compression of ideas – it is short but provides every important detail which readers may care about. Says, the background of the story and the court decision. It has no visual aids accompanied. In this case, from the view of a reader, it doesn’t bother me whether there are pictures or videos to bring me deeper in the story. Because any scandal with the name Paris Hilton is not “news” at all, we know who she is and what she is doing for her life. Sometimes we are just curious about the punishment she may get in a new case.
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