Top stories on ONE News and 3 News tonight

ONE News:

1. Haiti earthquake
2. Search for NZ family in Haiti
3. Musician living in NZ hopes mother alive in Haiti
4. Red cross comment on earthquake
5. Haiti briefing

3 News:

1. Haiti earthquake
2. Hillary delays NZ visit
3. Haiti aid efforts
4. Haiti briefing
5. Air force pilot dies during stunt

Commentary:

Both bulletins had thorough video footage of the earthquake aftermath and rescue efforts, including comment from Hillary Clinton and Helen Clark.  Both played the clip I saw on YouTube only hours after the earthquake, of a woman thinking the world was ending.  ONE News used some clips tonight from CNN, while 3 News used some clips from CBS. Both put the death toll unknown but thought to be as many as 100,000. Both covered the same NZ connections to the earthquake – a family and a musician’s mother – 3 News wrapped these all into one story while ONE had them as separate items.

The aid efforts information was more detailed on 3 News – although they did use the French flag accidentally for Spain!

Both gave some information about the caused of the quake and some recent Haitian history.

Both news bulletins seemed pretty good to me tonight and I will award this one as a tie.  I personally tended to like the way 3 News presented it a bit more – the overview at the start was useful and the footage seemed a bit more concise (but still covering the same) than ONE News – perhaps because they didn’t spend so long with the musician speculating about his mother in Haiti?

Verdict: Tie

What did you think of the news bulletins tonight?

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  • Rachel

    Side note: Helen Clark looked different, couldn’t put my finger on why?

  • bobscoffee

    I found the news item on ONE News about the musician as too long and unnecessary. It could’ve been done as a passing thing, but instead we have him singing on his doorstep. I do not get the mindset of NZ media always trying to give overseas events a NZ slant/perspective. The earthquake affected far more Haitians than New Zealanders.

    Yes it’s very sad that one NZ family is affected by the earthquake, but there are thousands of Haitians that are affected or are even worse off.

  • Mr X

    Nightline had the missing NZers last night, while TV1′s late night news had nothing new…