Al Jazeera

New Hampshire

'Women win big in New Hampshire vote', this is the main title of the article appeared on the Official Al Jazeera Live Blog on the 7th November 2012. A short article, based on 'Reuters' news agency, talking about the election of a female Democrat governor, Maggie Hassan, and two women to represent New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives, Democrats Ann McLane Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter.

The article ends with a curt quote by Governor Hassan, saying that "Together, we will build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire".

We can see that the language used by the journalist (whose name is not even specified) is impersonal and hasty, maybe because the news has just been copied from the Reuters Agency.

The article was in the Official Al Jazeera Blog, and not in the Official Website, and no photos or insights have been added.

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/us-election-2012/women-win-big-new-hampshire-vote

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Annecy shootings

Al Jazeera's reaction to the Lake Annecy's slaughter :

Al Jazeera's first online article about this massacre is dated 07/10/2012. It's a simple and direct report about the episode : it talks about the victims, 3 members of an Iraqui-British family, who have been shot with several bullets, and a French cyclist who was passing by and has been killed for being 'in the wrong place at the wrong moment'. The only survivors are two sisters, aged 7 and 4. The elder one was severely injured, she had been shot in the shoulder and beated in the head. Her little sister managed to hide herself under her mother's skirt. The police found her 8 hours after the shooting and she was completely shocked. After reporting the dynamics of the massacre, the journalist inserts a comment by public prosecutor Eric Maillaud saying that the slaughter was probably accomplished by non-professional criminals.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/10/2012102071717637204.html

The second Al Jazeera's article about this episode is dated 20/11/2012. It adds some details, for example, it says that investigators think that only one person was involved in the shootings. Moreover, it reports that, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the French cyclist, Syilvain Mollier, has been the first to be shot. It suggests that he, and not the Iraqui family, may be the target of the killer. The journalist strenghtens the previous hypotesis about the non-professionality of the killer, who is described as 'disorganised'. The article ends reporting that Saad al-Hilli, the 50year old father of the Iraqi family, worked as a mechanical design engineer with the Surrey Satellite Technology firm.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/09/2012965316547370.html

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