People are obviously trying to get over the Ukrainian-Russio dispute by adding humor

into the mix such as with the twitter post and the memes, the news articles are a little more
formal and because of that there is no such humor to be found in them. In the twitter post a
person called Reuben Lewis posted After failing to win an Oscar Leonardo Di Caprio has gone
on an all night coke binge and ended up in Ukraine. as well as a man in a picture to go with it,
as the man resembles Leonardo Di Caprio. The memes use humor as well with pictures of the
Russian President Putin and in the captions it says Got asked if Ukraine is the same as Russia,
. Trying to imply that it will be or it already has become part of Russia. The exact same
message is being implied in another meme that also has a picture of President Putin that says
Ukraine? No. Mykraine.
Now the news article takes a whole other approach to the Ukrainian problem, it's title
says it all: Ukrainian Crisis: Timeline, and to start off the article it has a picture of an old man
and what seems like his completely destroyed house behind him while he stands looking away in
shock. Way to go BBC, you've got us all feeling strongly about this already. Throughout the
news article they use words that would only make you feel worried about Ukraine and the
Russian invasion. Words they used were long and elaborate one you do not see everyday such
as: Rebellion, Annexation, Separatist, overthrow, threatened, these are words I have only seen
being used together in Star Wars, and that was a pretty dramatic movies series to me. What also
makes the news article in favor of Ukraine by a lot is the big details like pictures, titles, the
introduction, but once you start reading the small details and facts by day, it shows that Russia
did not seem like it was doing anything wrong. Things like Russia sending envoys of
humanitarian aid, sending troops to it's own side of the boarder because of a rebel attack on the
Russian town of Novoazovsk as well as Ukraine accusing Russia of invading Ukraine, and

Ukraine capturing 10 Russian Paratroopers. This shows that Russia was not really trying to
invade and decimate Ukraine, or so it says. Simply from all that information one can convey that
this news article is in no way humorous, if it was I am pretty sure BBC will get some extreme
flaming from other news stations as well as people.
The reason I feel that the memes and twitter are mostly humorous is because they both
are found on social networking sites where people are friends with everyone else and they tend
not to be serious towards a subject or topic because that is what is considered cool. Now if you
were in a serious environment then what you would be talking about is news, formal articles,
things that make it big, not some lousy picture with white writing on it. One can not really say
whether or not the memes are factual or opinion, they are either funny or not. Also, a journalist
has a reputation to uphold which is why I feel that they are as serious and straightforward as can
be.
One thing all these sources have in common is that they do talk about the RussianUkrainian conflict as well as president Valdimir Putin of Russia. Things they have in contrast is
the twitter post is limited to 159 characters and one picture, if I am correct (Not really a
tweetter). The meme must be very funny within 10-20 words on a picture. The last source, the
news article must be very factual and information filled, like the jelly in a jelly filled donut, but
with more jelly and a really big donut because the article is so long as well as being covered in
chocolate and sprinkles. Needless to say news articles are written by professional journalists and
they write very long, elaborate, and complex readings for a larger amount of people.