"Issue" Article Assignment

You will need to find and read one article online about your "issue" of choice.  Prior to your first article, you will need to spend some time thinking about perceived biases in news outlets.  The chart and article here provide an interesting way to map these perceived biases.  Please refer to the chart labeled mediabiaschart.com. Note that this interpretation of biases may be challenged by some readers (in other words, some may see the chart of bias as biased). Also, this is my preferred version of the chart on this webpage, but I am not advocating for any new items or opinion pieces this site may contain.

Now that you have read and reflected on the chart, you are going to try to find an article on your issue that is contained in one of the news sources in the center top region.  That would include

Associated Press
American Foreign Press
NBC
ABC
CBS
NPR
BBC Wall Street Journal
Time
Christian Science Monitor
Bloomberg


Signs that you have accomplished this would include graphics on the screen that denote your news source, the new sources' name in the web address, or a byline indicated that the article was written by a member of that journalistic institute.

Read and think about your article.

If you are not liking your "issue" after reading your article, you may choose a different topic or discuss concerns with me.

Then you will write a "rhetorical precis (summary)" using the template that OSU uses for some of its courses.  It is available here.

You will need to turn in ONE rhetorical precis for Friday.  Submission technique will be explained at a later date.