Read All Over about the NJ corruption

I was looking at the New Jersey Corruption this past week. I first found about this in the New York Times, and checked at other sources as well.

First of all, the New York Times was focusing on the fact, and the article had so many pages. I did not feel the article was biased or written with the strong feeling about this matter. It is more like showing the fact and summarizing what police investigation says about this matter.

Then, I read the same article in USA today. It had facts as well but not so detailed as NY Times. Also I felt it was more targeting the opinion of the people who live in the town, or the people's attitude and feeling about this matter more than the actual event that happened.

I found NY Post interesting. They only had a big picture of a rabbi and very simplified fact and they focused on the exact words that rabbi used to imply the "cash" in Hebrew. Other than that trivial information, they did not focus on the news as much as the other sources.

Then, I've read BBC news. I got the sense that it was the shortest and a little oversimplified. For example, other source clearly said 44people were arrested, but only BBC said more than 44 people arrested. Maybe it was because they were not sure about the number at the time, but there weren't updated news about this. On the other hand, I would say this source is the most non-biased article out of all the sources that I've read.

I tried to find the ethnic press, but I was not able to find one. Since corruption is not a surprising event in our long history, this may not be the hottest topic in foreign countries. I also noticed that each news source has its target and particular readers. So their advertisements showing up to the margins of the news are also interesting. When a certain word is searched, the add also correspond with the searched word.

NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?scp=1&sq=nj%20corruption&st=cse

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-23-nj-corruption-probe_N.htm

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8165607.stm

NY Post
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252009/news/regionalnews/the_talmudic_traitor_rabbis_181314.htm