Wednesday, August 25, 2010

WEEK 6 -- Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'

The news 'Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'' is easily catch audiences' attention, as it may has a huge impact, proximity, controversy, currency, and oddity.

However, the story is quite long as a online news. It has 792 words, so it easily for the audiences to get boring when they read the story, especially when the news is full of astronomical.

The news is currency as it relates to the ' 2012 phenomenon', people are all curious about it, especially after the film '2012' released last year. The story itself has a huge impact as all of the human-beings may be affected, so it is proximity to all of the audiences as well. The news is also controversy because experts have different opinions towards this issue, it is a ongoing debate over audiences for a year. Besides that, nobody on the earth has seen it or have experience, so it is also oddity.

The news is written in the inverted pyramid format. It has a clearly lead that tells the audience the sun is waking up, and end up with lots of quotations.

The news story fairly include the 'five W and one H rule'. It gives audiences a clearly idea about the activities of the sun storm, and explained what happened in the past and what is going to happen in the future and its impact. It also uses a plain language to describe such a mysterious thing. As a result, it is not hard for audiences to understand the news.

The story shows a shocked image on the top, with a explanation of 'The first solar storm of this cycle hit the Earth early this month, causing it to light up spectacularly / NASA Source: NASA', which highly draws audience attention and encourage them to read more. The article also have several links that give audiences more detailed information if they have interest in any of those specific area.