ABC News and CNN on caffeine consumption

The two news stories I found are in relation to the concern over how much caffeine is safe for the average person to consume. Pure Caffeine: Even a Teaspoon of Powder Can Be Dangerous from ABC News and Dark roasted and dangerous: Everything you should know about caffeine intoxication from CNN both analyze/interpret reports and studies from the US Food and Drug Administration, along with additional sources. The audience and story angles are very similar between the two stories. The ABC article aims to inform those who have either used or considered using concentrated caffeine products about the dangers of overconsuming caffeine. The CNN story aims to inform the average caffeine consumer of the risks of drinking too much caffeine. 

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     Neither of the two stories benefit from the use of graphics or images, with only one image per story and no graphics between the two. I think the use of some kind of chart showing the rising number of deaths related to overconsumption of caffeine mentioned in both stories would help to emphasize this point. I think the CNN story did a better job at breaking the information up into sections, although no lists were used. The article is broken up into 4 sections of information: How much caffeine is too much, what is caffeine intoxication, what to do if you suspect a caffeine overdose, and how to avoid caffeine overdose. The ABC News article doesn’t break the information up at all. 

     I do think both stories did a great job at embedding links to other outside sources and referencing those sources throughout the article in ways that make sense. The CNN article references the National Coffee Association and National Library of Medicine. The ABC article references the New England Journal of Medicine. I felt that the ABC News article could have used more outside sources, with a lot of the embedded links just being other ABC articles, some of which wouldn’t open on my device. 



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