Highland High School Shootings: Fox News, CBS News

There has been over twenty shootings in the United States from the start of January of this year, and yet it seems as if teenagers are still able to easily obtain firearms. For instance, on Friday May eleventh, there was another report about a shooting here in the United States. The incident occured in Los Angeles on Friday morning. There were reports of a Fourteen year old student being suspected of shooting a former classmate who is attending school at Highland High in Palmdale, California. Details provided from the authorities about the incident inform readers that the victim was a fifteen year old student who was shot in the arm on Friday morning at Highland High School in Palmdale. The authorities have not yet provided the name of the

Those three main news sources are Fox News, CBS News, and CNN News. All three sources had both similarities and differences about what they said towards the shooting in Los Angeles. Fox News is considered to be a conservative, libertarian, and independent news source, which means that it does not really discuss political or religious topics, has its own views about certain things and does not depend on others authority, and lastly, it believes in the philosophy of free will. Unlike any of the other type of news sources that are out there, Fox News provides a lot of information about an event such as who, what, when, where and why an event occurred, instead of just sticking to one point of the story and leaving out the rest. The online article, Fox News, in Suspect detained in connection to shooting reported at California high school, places its attention onto many sections of the topic as to explain different parts of the story. The online article mentions the age of the suspect who is a fourteen year old boy, and the victim who is a fifteen year old student who is attending Highland High School in Palmdale, California. It also discusses about those other than the suspect or victim who were involved in this occurrence, which are: the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office, the suspect’s

This means that CNN News is more about discussing politics in the news and it is open to opinions of others as well. The online article, CNN News, in 14-year-old in custody after shooting at a California high school, gives a lot of detailed information as to who was involved in the event, where it occured, and what exactly happened. This article from CNN News describes this event to be the twenty first school shooting in the United States since the start of 2018, whereas the articles from CBS and Fox News report this to just as a shooting, not a school shooting. The article also mentions that the suspect was accused of attempted murder. The article further mentions the type of gun that the suspect used, and that they fired the gun more than once. It is however specified that the suspect was located and apprehended about a mile away from the school near a grocery store. Unlike the other two articles that were mentioned above, the purpose of this article including the part of this being the twenty first school shooting in the United states since the start of the year, was to use the idea of propaganda, and grab the attention of anyone who was looking for more information about the