In my final semester at Bucknell, I faced an extremely unusual event. My country had gone through a coup. This was not quite a unique experience, as there was a large number of students from Burma in universities abroad. In my independent study with Dr. Jakacki, I was interested in looking at how the coup was percieved from the inside versus the outside, what different topics a news outlet would cover based on where they were. I chose to look at the Irrawaddy, an accessible English outlet reporting out of Burma, and The Voice of America, which has deep ties to the country from the days of military tyranny.