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The Hunt For Osama Bin Laden
By Max Cohen
11/19/01
Dailynews.yahoo.com & New York Post
The Pentagon hopes Afghans motivated by the
Taliban's collapse and millions in U.S. reward money
will find Osama bin Laden 's hide-out so U.S. troops
won't have to hunt cave-to-cave for him, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday. The site offers links
to related news stories, opinion and editorials, different
kinds of graphics and links to related web sites.
11/20/01
Dailynews.yahoo.com & New York Post
American troops may have to go cave to cave
and tunnel to tunnel looking for Osama bin Laden. If
local people can't find bin Laden and the job eventually
falls to the U.S. military, it will require different
kinds of forces than the special-ops troops now in Afghanistan,
Rumsfeld said. He did not elaborate, but other officials
have said that might mean an infantry unit like the
Army's 10th Mountain, which has about 1,000 troops in
Uzbekistan. This site includes news resources such as
message boards, live discussions and news alerts.
11/21/01
CNN.com & New York Times
The Taliban said Wednesday they have no contact
with Osama bin Laden as the U.S. military moved to cut
off a possible escape route for the suspected terrorist
or his followers. The site offers pictures, audio and
video feeds and links to related sites.
11/22/01
NYTimes.com & New York Post
American forces seeking the hide-outs of Osama
bin Laden are being equipped with sophisticated new
technology -- an array of sensors -- that can pierce
darkness, bad weather and as much as 100 feet of solid
rock, homing in on heat and magnetic fields.
11/23/01
CNN.com & New York Times
Cnn.com reports that a lot of Afghans are
tempted when they learn of President Bush's bounty on
the head of bin Laden, but few have even a vague notion
of how much that is worth. In a sampling across Kabul,
most people said such a reward would be enough to last
them the rest of their lives. At a typical monthly wage
of $4, in fact, it would cover the next 500,000 years.
The only web feature presented in this story was the
link connecting to related sites.
11/24/01
NYTimes.com & New York Post
With Taliban troops establishing strong pockets
of resistance across a wide swath of Afghanistan, the
United States is using two bases in Pakistan to send
in several hundred Special Operations forces in an attempt
to kill Taliban troops and capture Osama Bin Laden.
11/25/01
CNN.com & New York Times
The first Northern Alliance troops entered
Konduz Sunday, while the city's Taliban and non-Afghan
defenders were reported surrendering "continuously."
The fall of Konduz would mark the loss of the last Taliban
citadel in the north of Afghanistan, leaving the Islamic
militia with a stronghold only in Kandahar in the south.
The web features present with this article are audio
and video feeds, and links to related sites besides
having pictures that complement the story.
11/26/01
CNN.com & New York Times
Northern Alliance forces captured the northern
Afghan city of Konduz on Monday, the last stronghold
in the region for the Taliban, prompting a festive celebration
by residents. In the meantime, the foreign minister
of the Northern Alliance, which controls Kabul and most
of Afghanistan, now says that he believes that Mullah
Omar and Osama bin Laden must be somewhere in Kandahar.
The site offers pictures and links to related sites.
11/27/01
CNN.com & New York Times
U.S. forces are searching for Taliban leaders
and suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden around
the Afghan cities of Kandahar and Jalalabad, the U.S.
commander in the region said Tuesday. The site offers
pictures related to the story and web features such
as links to related sites. I believe that the placement
of the story in the digital medium (CNN.com) made it
more important when compared to the print publication.
11/28/01
CNN.com & New York Times
The CNN.com article states that the Court
TV rushes documentary on Bin Laden trial to TV. One
more day, and the people at Court TV can stop sweating
the Osama bin Laden hunt. The network's one-hour documentary
imagining a trial for the terrorist thought to be the
mastermind behind the September 11 attacks is being
rushed to television on Thursday, rescheduled from December
6. I believe that due to the relevance of this story,
the web features were seriously affected because it
simply didn't have any. There were no pictures and no
audio feeds.
11/29/01
CNN.com & New York Post
U.S. planes struck Kandahar and its surroundings
Thursday after a day and night of some of the most intense
bombardment against the city so far, sources inside
Kandahar told CNN. The site includes interactive features
such as message boards and it also has audio and video
feeds which make the digital publication a more effective
medium.
11/30/01
CNN.com & New York Times
The CNN.com article states that the Afghans
want Osama Bin Laden out now and that this is the momentum
is on the American side. All the web features presented
within the article are of extreme usefulness. It has
links to related stories and audio feeds. Since the
story wasn't very long, it didn't take many clicks to
read it in full. This time the advertisement didn't
interfere with my experience as a reader because it
was very discrete (bearably noticeable). Again I must
state that the digital medium was more effective in
keeping the reader informed.
12/01/01
CNN.com & New York Post
The tone of the story has changed from one
medium to the other but I believe that that is an editorial
choice and does not relate to the type of medium. The
cnn.com story is more focused on what is being done
and how the hunt is proceeding while the New York Post
keeps on trying to depict Osama Bin Laden as an "evil"
human being. The cnn.com article has many different
web features that complement the story. Besides having
presented within the article it also has video and audio
feeds. believe that the digital publication of the story
was more effective because of the many different options
related to the story.
12/02/01
Dailynews.yahoo.com & New York Times
It has been reported that U.S. jets bombed
a mountain region killing 58 people in eastern Afghanistan
where Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden is suspected
of having a hideout. This site also offers a complete
coverage about Afghanistan and the Taliban. It also
has web features such as links to related news stories,
opinion and editorial links, graphics and links to related
web sites.
12/03/01
Dailynews.yahoo.com & New York Times
Anti-Taliban fighters tightened their noose
around the besieged city of Kandahar and U.S. bombers
blasted a suspected hide-out of Osama bin Laden on Monday
as Afghan rivals meeting in Germany inched toward an
accord for a new power-sharing government. No web features
were offered by this site so it was just like reading
a print copy of the article.
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