Conventional Journalism

Link:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-jan-brewer-20120126,0,3363048.story

This article from the Los Angeles Times represents the conventional journalism because it follows the rules established for it.  The article answers the main questions used in typical journalism, which are: Who, What, When and Where. And then there is: How and Why; those are used but are not mandatory. In this specific news article the answers to the questions are:

•      Who? President Obama and Arizona’s governor, Jan Brewer.
•      What? That they both seemed to be having an argument when he arrived at Arizona. And that the governor was even seen jabbing a finger to the president. But prior to this, the governor and the president had already had a problem due to the fact that the Brewer called Obama patronizing and condescending, and apparently he did not appreciated it.
•      When? In Obama’s last visit to Arizona this Wednesday. January 25, 2012.
•      Where? In Phoenix airport.
•      How? The argument was done while they were greeting each other and the governor wrote about the president’s style as patronizing and condescending   in a memoir written by her a long time ago.
•      Why? The verbal argument was due to the president’s problem in the way he was described. But the way Brewer wrote about the president could be due to the fact of their different political views, since they are from opposing parties.

This article is conventional because it answers the questions conventional journalism is concern with. Most of the articles that belong to conventional journalism include a lot of research for they respond to true events but there are exceptions, like this article for it involved research but not a great deal of it. However, all type of conventional journalism is based on true events and there is no exception for this. In some articles some facts may be wrong but still conventional journalism should only respond to true events.