The first major course assignment was useful because it forced students to look into current issues in the news. I, and I’m sure many other students, do not keep up with the news on a daily basis. By doing this project, I was introduced to news that I have not been following that I should have been following. Even more importantly, the assignment forced students to decide how an issue is being portrayed and whether or not it is reliable. This is important to understand because many articles can be bias towards a certain situation.
For my group, we discussed the Knox trial. At first, I honestly did not even know what the Knox trial was. However, looking more into it, I discovered it was about a young woman being accused of murdering her roommate. The article that we had read was reliable because the author merely stated the facts and events of the trial. After doing this project, I noticed the importance of the trial. All the magazines and news channels covered the Knox trial extensively. If I had not done this project, I probably would have not even noticed all these media attention on Knox, causing me to miss out on a well-publicized issue.
Hey Kristine, nice post, I thought it was interesting that while we were in the same group we reviewed different assignments. I thought your description of the different biases encountered was terrific, as I experienced the same thing throughout the assignment, with not only the original article being biased, but many sources I found were biased as well. This post was also very interesting to me because I'm one of the few young people I know who read the newspaper everyday, so it's always intriguing to see someone's view on a subject that they have learned about in a short amount of time, whereas I had formulated my opinions about Knox months ago. Overall this was a really informative post and it helped me step into someone else's shoes on this assignment, which is something as a student I always highly value.
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