Casual v. Serious

There are many differences between the three feature articles that we read, The Cost Cunundrum, Heeeer’s…Conan!, and JA, but the thing that struck me as the most different was the tone in which each of the articles was written. The Cost Cunundrum was an article that talked about health care in the United States and used facts and numbers to prove a point. Heeeer’s…Conan! Talked related the last moments of The Late Show and how the transition to The Tonight Show was taking place. JA was a piece that retold the life and experiences of a graffiti artist named JA. The first had a serious and punctual tone, the second had a nostalgic and sentimental tone, and the last one had a casual and factual tone. However, while each of these articles told a very different story in very different ways they were all clearly informative articles that were telling a story. I thought that it was very interesting to see how three different topics that can be as varied as you can get all registered as news in my brain regardless of the fact that none of them had anything in common. I think that reading these articles helped me notice that the point of a feature article is that it states something that people don’t know and that it manages to capture people’s attention while it does it. If I were to write a feature article now I would feel that I had a lot more freedom in regards to what subject I was covering and to the style that I was using to write the news because know I know that not all news have to be serious. A piece can be written casually and be understood as well as if it was written in a serious tone. Another thing that I saw is that each piece comes from a different place. I usually look at the same site for all my news, but I noticed that it might be really good to switch it up a bit and look at new sources or at a big list of them so I can get news on all areas and also in all styles s that reading does not become stale.