Sunday, August 30, 2009

Chinese Toxic Lead Plant Poisons Town's Children

Over the summer I found an interesting article about China in CNN. Chinese toxic lead plant poisons town's children, it was about how hundreds of children were found to have lead poisoning. Children symptoms ranged from attention deficits to even death. Because of this, the plant was ordered to shut down and families were to be moved. I decided to compare and contrast this to another article. I found another article in Fox News Lead poisoning sickens 600 kids in China. It had the same story, hundreds of children with lead poisoning. However unlike the CNN article it did not have the parents voices. They talked about the amount of children and some of the causes of the lead poisoning. While the Fox News talked about the factory itself and pollution, they didn't talk about the children's illness in depth and their parents anger. One tried showing the world about the errors of the plants. While the other voiced the distress of the people. This shows how one story can take different paths to be heard.

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