An armed gunman shot and killed 13 people on September 16, 2013 at a Navy complex in Washington.

This story has been the leading story on all news outlets and Medias since it occurred.

On the PBS Newshour which aired on the evening on September 18th, the story was allotted four minutes and 27 seconds during the one hour duration of the show.

The piece was essentially an interview conducted with Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel.

The interview ran 12 minutes and addressed such topics as the Syrian conflict and Iran’s denouncement of nuclear weapon production.

The four minute slot that addressed the Washington shooting basically covered how the shooting could have possibly occurred in a “military installation” and what the government was doing to address these security issues.

Hagel avoided answering some questions, repeated himself and further in-depth analysis was not provided about the case like it was in the online news and radio news coverage.

At the end of the show, a 12 second sentence was provided as a part of a sum up of what the Newshour was about.

No other sources aside from Chuck Hagel’s commentary were provided.

NPR’s Morning Edition which aired the morning of September 18th dedicated 15 minutes and 38 seconds of its 79 minute 47 second show to the story.

These 15 minutes were spread out amongst five different segments related to the story.

Of all five pieces a total of 15 different sources were directly quoted ranging from Navy vets, the shooter’s former employer and to citizens effected by the tragedy.

The radio media coverage was much more thorough and went into an extensive amount of issues surrounding the incident.

Background noise occurred only during quotes from interviews, clippings from Obama’s speeches regarding the story and during the set up of a visual for the listener.

A visual occurred only once and featured loud organs and religious chanting to describe a church which held services for the families of the victims of the shooting.

The radio portion went extensively into who the shooter was including analysis of surveillance videos and police reports filed before the shooting occurred.

Police reports were provided as evidence of the man’s deteriorating mental health before the incident.

The radio show also talked about the political and social issues surrounding the event including gun control laws and funding for the mentally ill.

It was extremely extensive and not very similar to the television coverage shown in the PBS Newshour.

The television portion did not even mention other issues aside from security overlooks at the facility where the shooting occurred.

The online news report addressed other issues but focused mostly on the shooter’s mental health and how it stands as another example of the gun violence crisis in America.  

The Al Jazeera online news coverage was less detailed than NPR’s radio show but more detailed than PBS Newshours’ coverage.

The specific story I read was 1,149 words long but the site also had two other “related stories” one which listed relevant statistics and another which was 604 words.

The specific story I read was titled “DC tragedy renews debate: Gun laws or mental health to blame?”

The story had seven different quoted sources mostly from professionals or from government officials.

Underneath the title of the article was a picture of a mobile device displaying a picture of the shooter apparently sent to a friend before the shooting occurred.

The article commented mostly on how this tragedy is a part of a slew of others like it which have created a major controversy in the U.S regarding gun control laws and lack of mental health funding.

It also compared the United States to other western civilizations who do not have the same issues because of the way their governments are run.

In my comparison and analysis of these three different types of media I would say that television should be the most open to diversity out of the three but PBS Newshour failed to use the outlet to its advantage and fell beneath the mark.

The radio and television outlets have the freedom to feature “normal” people on their shows more than written news like the Al Jazeera article does (since Al Jazeera’s article did not include a video or podcast portion).