United States: a 16-year-old kills three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school
the same fact, two accounts
this subject is more divergent than 60% of recent comparable stories
PakistanIslamabad sees the Bend shooting as a new episode in the American gun debate, as reported in the dispatches with the intervention of an armed resident at the center of the story.
What each one tells
opposition
AustraliaCanberra is reconstructing the Bend shooting as a textbook security case: locked doors forced open with a rifle, police on the scene in just a few minutes, and a civilian intervening before they arrived.
- Pakistan
by American debate
the articles put the killing into the series of school shootings and the controversy over gun laws.
What the account puts first
Australiaby police chronology
the narrative highlights the forced entry and the response time.
- Pakistan
Reliance on agency dispatches
two of the three articles reuse the same text, without any proprietary Pakistani source.
What it leans on
AustraliaReliance on anonymous source
the origin of the weapon is based on an unnamed official quoted by the AP.