Today, 29thSeptember 2010, is a general strike in Spain. And an important march with 100.000 people organised by European trade unions is expected to take place in Brussels to protest aginst anti-austerity mesures taken by European governments.
The newspaper Voice of America in the European section only brings one new related to this subject, about the particular situation in Romania. The whole article is devoted to the resignation of the Interior Minister because of a huge march of Romania's Interior after a morch of “ 6,000 police angry over a 25 percent wage cut”, and also to the curious situation of the President who has to drive his own car due to the police strike. This newspaper only mentions at the end of this article that other European countries
are mobilized and doesn’t explain anything about the arguments hold by unions nor the march they have organised today in Brussels.
BBC News, Europe, offers this new as the first one of the day, gives voice to the unions, and doesn’t mention the peculiar situation in Romania at all.
Both articles were easy to read, vocabulary was familiar to me, but the styles are quite different. American newspaper is more focused in the anecdote, BBC gives a general idea of the subject with the main reasons and some figures to illustrate it, refusing to describe personal situations. So that, I imagine BBC readers are more interested in going deep in the topics, while Voice of America is more light and will attract other kind of people, more interested in curious phenomena.