Sea Shepherd vs. Japanese Whaling

Masayuki FujinawaEnglish 403Spring 2013

To analyze the differences of the article in two different newspapers

The New York Times and the New Zealand Herald

Keywords(“Japan”, “Sea Shepherd”, “Whale”, and “hunting”)

All articles were obtained from Lexis Nexis database

My Research Task

More information about the story of Japanese story

Why? the author of the article was a Tokyo

bureau chief of the New York Times( more access to Japanese media and spokesman of Japanese government)

More quotes from Japanese fisherman and/or ministry of Japan

In the article in the New York Times

More information about the story of Sea Shepherd side

Why? Many quotes from a captain of Sea

Shepherd as well as other members No information or quotes from

Japanese fisherman, ministry of Japan, or the Japanese media

In the article in the New Zealand Herald

Different words choicesIn the New York Times, “harassment” or ”illegal behavior” are used to describe the action of Sea ShepherdIn the New Zealand Herald, “intercept” or “prevent” are used to describe the action of Sea Shepherd

More differences between two news articles