Choose a current event that's controversial and that's getting a good deal of coverage in the news. Using the Internet, find a news report about this current event in each of the following places:
• A newspaper from the city where you live.
• A newspaper from a fairly liberal United States city (like San Francisco or Boston)
• A newspaper from a fairly conservative United States city (like Salt Lake City or Dallas)
• CNN. com
• FoxNews. com
• National Public Radio (npr. org)
• A newspaper from a country with good relations with the United States
• A newspaper from a country with poor relations with the United States
Compare and contrast news coverage of this event in each of these news outlets -- that is, how is the news covered
similarly and differently in each of these news sources? Go into detail and include specific quotes from each news story
in your analysis
Keeping in mind the similarities and differences in the news coverage, in your opinion, how does news blas play into the
news coverage you read in these eight sources? In other words, were any (or all) of these sources biased? If so, how?
Cite the eight sources you analyze in this paper. No other sources are required. nm