As the hunger strike continues in Guantanamo Bay, different sources take different ways of portraying how president Obama is reacting to the issue of whether the prison should be shut down or not. Recent hunger strikes from the inmates have raised issues whether the US can force these prisoners to eat against their will. while the New York times looks at the president’s decision to back off his initial want of wanting to close down the prison, and relates it to how the issues within the country side tracked him, BBC news focuses more on the international feel and looks at the issues the president faces without going into detail as to what those in the US are saying themselves, sort of giving the BBC a feel that they are simply delivering the news without trying to give insights as to what they think should be done. The independent however, goes about by giving details as to how the prison became so infamous and the issues with closing it, neither criticizing the president nor presuming how the country should go about the issue, it’ll be interesting to see how these different media sources go about publishing the developments after the president comes to a decision
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/president-obama-to-make-new-effort-to-close-guantanamo-bay-after-mass-hunger-strike-8596709.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22358351
I also find it interesting how the New York Times does not provide President Obama’s statements, in comparison to BBC and Independent, in which they provided quotes. That coincides with your with view that the NYT set a certain tone by just saying his initial reactions on the issue.
I’d also like to see how other publications have been reporting on this story. It would also be interesting to see what type of media they use, like photographs and video.