Two Souces, Same Story, Different Coverage

     Recently Sacramento had an awful incident take place involving the Sacramento police department and the unnecessary murder of a young black man named Stephon Clark. Stephon Clark was killed on March 18, 2018, unarmed with no known intentions of causing the officers any harm. He was fired at 20 times and hit 7 times in the back. The officer who had shot him was previously on leave, but is now working once again.
     ABC news covers this by using the world the “police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old African-American man in Sacramento, California, last month have returned to work”.  While CBS states the “officers who shot a man to death in the backyard of a home are back on the job”.  ABC softens the terror in the act the officers have commited, specifically with the use of “fatal shooting” while CBS clearly and explicitly states what they did “shot a man to death”.  ABC news uses negative connotations to refer to to Sephons murder. Unlike ABC news, CBS uses positive connotations of Stephon’s homicide.  These two news sources covering the same story portray the facts in two very different ways.

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