500 words total (not counting the questions)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-04/california-to-consider-profit-penalties-for-oil-companies
– After reading the article, including taking careful notes, underlining, or highlighting important parts, answer the questions below. Copy and paste the questions along with your answers to a Word document to submit the assignment.
What is the articles title? Which agency or site published it?
Who is the author?
Google the author or institution to find out more about them. Are they a professional journalist, a one-time, or semi-regular contributor/writer? Why do they care about writing this article or telling this story? How do you know?
Who pays to produce this publication or who sponsors the publication?
Briefly summarize the story being relayed.
Does the author recognize multiple viewpoints on the story, or just one? How do you know?
What kind of framing does the author engage in? What kind of word choices do they use? Any hyperbolic language? (Turn to this weeks reading for reference on framing: https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/8-4-the-impact-of-the-media)
List one quotation to show what kind of framing they engage in.
Is this article a news gathering piece or a news analysis piece? How do you know?
Does the articles description of the world make sense to you? How so or not? Which explicit or implicit biases of your own do you see this article confirming in some way?
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