AIG Narrows Fourth Quarter Loss
By: Brittany Fastuca
February 26, 2010
AIG came out to the world about its $8.87 billion loss in the fourth quarter today, keeping the insurance company at a week point. The company was still in debt with the government in paying back loans. AIG did come out and warn the government and Securities and Exchange Commission of needs of financial aid. According to Los Angeles Times, "these fourth-quarter results were an improvement from the $61.7 billion AIG lost in the year ago period, but they were worse than analysts expected."
The USA Today paper actually published the same article but with a different title. Obviously all statistics were the same and facts, since it was the same writer. The way that Los Angeles Times makes it better though, is by presenting the article with a picture and a more in-depth title acknowledging the reader more of what they are about to read. Both these articles use a summary lead by including the 5 W's minus the where since there isn't a specific place.
New York Times was the first article to actually write out American International Group. The article starts out with a summary lede basically describing exactly what's going on and getting straight to the point in the first paragraph. New York Times states exact comparisons between each year with dollar amounts versus the other articles that use percentages. The way the 2 other articles top this is by going into how much AIG owes the government in dollar value. None of the articles follow the inverted pyramid structure, even though it known to be most common, they all keep the important facts flowing throughout the whole article. Even at the end of the USA Today and Los Angeles Times article they save the astonishing fact on how much AIG owes the government.
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