OBJECTIVES
Analyze news coverage of an event for bias
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