Description
Please spend a couple of hours browsing through newsweeklies. Some suggest magazines (but not limited to):
- New Yorker
- Harper’s
- Utne Reader
- Newsweek
- Time
- The New Republic
Suggested newspapers:
- Daily News-Record
- New York Times
- Washington Post
- New York Review of Books
- Mennonite Weekly Review
Pick an article and write a response, no more than a page long. Some issue you might want to address:
- What do you notice generally?
- Can you detect bias? If so, how?
- How does the author construct his/her article (i.e.: inverted pyramid? Hooks? Etc).
- How do the journalists reinforce or challenge the mission of their particular publication?
- Please do not simply summarize the article and/or give your feelings on the topic! The purpose of these assignments is to look at articles critically and learn from professional journalists
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: READING RESPONSE
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Reading Response
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Institutional Affiliation
READING RESPONSE
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Reading Response
McNeil Jr., D. (2017). A Global Health Scorecard Finds U.S. Lacking. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/health/health-care-global-united-states.html
The article is from the New York Times which delves in the much-debated state of the
U.S health system. The author's primary focus is a report on how nations perform in reducing
mortality. It is a well-reviewed article...