University Of Oklahoma's Racist Frat

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, comprised of students from the University Of Oklahoma, is currently being removed from the school because of a leaked video of members chanting racial slurs. The fraternity was on a bus on the way to an event and the video captures them singing racial slurs in unison to pass the time. The national chapter of the fraternity is shutting down the UOA brotherhood and the president of the school issued an apology saying this video does not represent the beliefs of the school. It was also stated all the students involved were being expelled.

NBC published coverage March 9th 2015, 12:45 am.The video starts in the studio with the anchor briefing the story. The footage of the students chanting is shown them pictures and videos of the schools reactions are shown. The most interesting part to me was the inclusion of various tweets. The twitter accounts of the fraternity and its affiliates act as an official statement. The coverage then showed interviews conducted with students of the university with most reactions being ones of disgust. The anchor in the video had a very serious tine throughout the whole piece and made it very obvious that he was ashamed of the students' actions. 

The CNN coverage was much different than NBC's. The video starts with the footage of the students chanting accompanied by subtitles to what they were saying. Statements made by the Fraternity follow the footage with the narrator of the piece exemplifying the main points. The piece ends with the voice over explaining the grief within the community. The narrator has a very calm, toned down voice. He delivered the story with a very serious tone and used inflections of sadness that seemed genuine. It was published March 9th, 4:15.

ABC's coverage featured an anchor introducing the story then giving voice over commentary while the clip is being shown. The tone is very straight forward and delivered in a serious matter. This was not as fluffy as NBC's broadcast and probably my favorite coverage that I found. It seemed to be the most genuine.