The Two Towns of Jasper; Deep Print V.S. Intense Television

With such an intense tragedy such as the one in Jasper, it is hard to convey feelings in any way simply because there are so many of them. Fear, anger, resentment, guilt, sadness, etc.
The written accounts covering the death of James Byrd, i believe, show more depth to the story simply because the second article related the story to the whole town in interviews with neighbors, a teen he was teaching piano to, and his family. There were also comments about Byrd's close friend who was supposed to take him home from the party he attended on the night of the incident. As far as these things go, the print version gave a good review of the community's reaction. Some things that the print version lacked was an intense description of what actually happened to Byrd whereas the television version was very descriptive and actually followed the road that it happened on. This is only because of the difference in media though, obviously you couldn't take numerous pictures of the road for a newspaper and expect them all to be published. Theres just something more intense about a sheriff walking down the road of a scene of a crime and trying to re-live what happened. It's not easy to convey those kind of feelings in print.
Although the television version had it's strengths, it also lacked in the personal relationships that Byrd held with his community (for example, the girl he was teaching piano to and his close neighbor and friend). These relationships are good to display because it's one thing to cover the emotions of a grief stricken family but to also cover community members who are just as upset, wether they personally knew the subject or not, brings more to the story.
I would say that the print version had good depth but the television version was more intense and although both of these are great strengths, i would personally pick the television version over the articles simply because of personal preference and interest in seeing emotion on peoples faces and how they convey themselves and their emotions.