Disaster National News Analysis

This article is from the BBC News website. This is article is explaining about the Great Barrier Reef getting destroyed.

Below is the link to the full article:

Great Coral Reef-Disaster article


The 5W's:

Who: The Chinese
What: Chinese coal ship to pay $29m.
When: April 2010
Where: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Why: Because the coal carrier caused damage to the Coral Reef.

News Values:

Predictability: We expected this to not happen.
Conflict:  The government and the local people will have an argument against China.
Negativity: This is bad news because if the coral reef is destroyed, it will effect tourism because they create revenue and income for the country and if this happens, then tourists would not be able to come. This will create less profit for Australia and will make the economy fall.