Hard News

The article I read was "Aide Shot Twice as Ukraine Hunts Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych" on NBC News by Reuters. It was a very short article but was reported on because the events in the Ukraine are important right now.

There is a lot of violence and trouble in the Ukraine with riots in the streets and many bloody protests. The ex-president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was ran out of office on Saturday and on an arrest warrant was issued on Monday for his arrest.

The article starts off with the very basic lead, in fact the title itself was almost the whole article itself. All the lead said was that the aide was on the run with the president when he was shot twice.  His name, Andriy Klyuev, was not mentioned until the second paragraph. I feel like his name should have been mentioned in the lead, since this is a high profile story. All eyes are on the Ukraine and if someone close to the man the whole country is looking for then I feel his name should be upfront. However I can also see why they did not put his name upfront. The man himself is not important, his relationship with the Ukrainian president is.

The story itself was very thin because there was no a lot of information to report. It was written in the same way a breaking news story is. There is the the basic facts without any filler. It is like when the Boston bombing occurred. I read an article thirty minutes after it happened and all it said was "bombs have went off at the Boston marathon". They want to get the basic story out to the people as fast as possible.  There was not a whole lot of information but the story was still important enough to report on. You could read any part of the article and walk away knowing the whole story.

The article mentioned where they got the information from and how they got it. It was over the phone from Andriy Klyuev's spokesman Artem Petrenko. He said that the presidents aide was shot twice but not in any danger. However this spokesperson said that he had not met Kyluev in a while and he heard this all from a trusted source. The article ended giving a brief summery of the bloody events in the Ukraine.