Antiwar.com v. The American Conservative

Antiwar.com v. The American Conservative 

Antiwar.com is a very busy website that contains a variety of different political news stories but for the most part centers on war and the US's involvement in international affairs. At first glance, it is hard to zone in on one particular headline or story because of how busy the page is. Writing takes up most of the space and there are very little images. At the top of the home section, there is a spot for top news stories. This is where you can find the most current articles. The top news stories section changes pretty frequently. Also on the website is a section titled viewpoints. Here you can find links to op-eds from The Hill, another widely known political news source. A lot of articles are from antiwar.com original sources, but most of the time you find stories that link to other channels. Under the viewpoints section is another section titled "spotlight" section. This consists of one article and, in the last few days of observing has remained the same. This week the spotlight article is titled "The US Dilemma in the Middle East Isn't Really a Dilemma," and is linked to another news sight called the LobeLog.

The main part of the antiwar.com site is of course the sections about antiwar sentiment. There are sections containing articles directed at the "front line" and US specifically. After clicking on some it became apparent that a lot of them were originally from The Hill. Other sections included "China", "Koreas", "Asia", "Russia", "Europe", "Iran", "Saudi Arabia", "Israel/Palestine." Antiwar.com also links articles straight to their Twitter in order to share stories in a timely (quicker) manner. Another interesting thing I observed from this website was a tab labeled "US Casualties" and "Iraq Casualties." Here you can find numbers of the deceased. 

The American Conservative website is much different. It is much more organized and clean looking. Articles are arranged in a more symmetrical way and visuals depict the headlines. The top story of the day sticks out the most at the top of the page with its corresponding image. There is also a magazine that The American Conservative viewers can subscribe to receive. As opposed to antiwar.com, most if not all of the articles on The American Conservative site are written by contributors that actually work for the company. They are not just linked news stories to other political news channels. The site also is much more broad in their topics covered where antiwar.com has a pretty obvious focus. 

Personally, I would be more inclined to find information from the American Conservative as opposed to Antiwar.com. I was not able to focus on one thing at a time while looking at Antiwar.com and the words and images all jumbled together. The American Conservative website was way more clean and professional looking, leading me to believe the content may also be something I would be more inclined to read.

https://www.antiwar.com
https://theamericanconservative.com