ANALYZING DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF A CURRENT EVENT
Locate three different newspaper or magazine accounts of an important eventa court decision, a crime, and a political demonstration are possible topics. Analyze each of the accounts using the questions listed next, and then construct your own version of what you believe took place.
Does the account provide a convincing description of what took place?
What reasons and evidence support the account?
How reliable is the source? What are the authors perceiving lenses, which might influence his or her account?
Is the account consistent with other reliable descriptions of this event?
This assignment refers to newspapers and magazines, but you should use internet sources with URLs, and you only need use two, rather than three, sources. Please include the article title and the URL in each (of two) instance. Be sure to answer each “bullet point” question, and BE SURE to include your own interpretation of the event, which should explain what led you to your conclusions where the articles differ.
