I would have to say there is a significant difference in these news sites. The main issue is that Donald Trump wants this golf resort built in an area where environmentalists and local residents of Aberdeen, Scotland do not want touched. The Guardian is more anti-Trump, because it is clearly against Donald Trump’s ambitious endeavor. They seem to be trying to make Trump look as bad as possible in the situation. They make him out as one of the many self-interested, greedy rich people who only care about their next dollar, and don’t care anything about how what they are doing is affecting the world in a bad way. The Guardian discusses anything that they think would make the reader loathe Trump’s plan. They take the statements that he has made about the landscape being magnificent, and show them in contradiction with his words about wanting to build over the magnificent landscape. The Guardian makes Donald out as being uncaring for the natural beauty of Ireland when he states that he knows more about the environment than the environmentalist. They tell how Trump is facing opposition everywhere on his real estate development endeavors, which would tell a reader that maybe Trump isn’t someone to trust when he comes throwing around ideas about development. They ultimately make Trump out to be a person that cares nothing about the environment of Scotland, or the natural beauty of the dunes; he is seen as unsympathetic and disrespectful to the Balmedie sand dunes.
ABC News is more on Trump’s side. First off, they don’t state the bad effect that Trump’s development would have on the environment, or the importance of preserving the natural beauty of the Balmedie sand dunes. All focus is put on “The Donald,” as an individual. Whereas The Guardian is thinking about the environment and preservation of Scotland, ABC News is thinking about the troubles of Trump. I guess The Donald’s biggest problem is that he cannot become richer. There is a difference in what the two news sites think of as worthy news. The environment and preservation is less important than reporting on a multibillionaire to ABC. I guess since ABC is American news, the main audience (Americans) would not care much about the effects of the Donald’s development on Scotland. American news tends to focus on America, and The Donald is an American, so he is more important. By reporting about Trump and not the bad apples Scotland could get handed, ABC gets more people to read it, gets more ratings on its website, gets more sponsors (which means more money), and their mission is accomplished.
To refer back to the youtube video, Donald Trump is coming off as greed driven. It seems that he is saying some bullshit that he doesn’t mean in order to get his way. I don’t think he cares about the environment; he just cares about his monetary prosperity. Greed is definitely good to him, I would have to say. But that’s my opinion.
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