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
EcuadorQuito is relaying the Bend shooting in real time, sticking to the provisional toll and the response of the police, without motive or debate on guns.
- 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
EcuadorStatistical
the narrative places the event in an annual count of mass shootings rather than in the political debate on guns.
- Pakistan
Reliance on agency dispatches
two of the three articles reuse the same text, without any proprietary Pakistani source.
What it leans on
EcuadorReliance on CNN
the toll is based on preliminary information reprinted from an American media outlet.