2016-03-03 Current Events: identifying sources

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: Try to find an article that remains optimistic about Rubio, Kasich, or Carson winning the Republican nomination.

March Madness = NCAA tournament for college basketball
Final Four = The games with the last four teams in the tournament
Home Court Advantage = The morale advantage a team gets when it plays in its home city.

Who is the target audience of the optimistic Kasich article?
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More generally, how can you identify the target audience of a news article?
- the source of the article
- the vocabulary (how advanced/technical is the vocabulary?)
- emphasis (what things are emphasized as being more important?)
- openness about their bias
- length of the article
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Read your article about Mitt Romney and Donald Trump and try to characterize the target audience and the tone of the article. Then compare your article and ideas with your partners’.

The articles are from the Boston Herald (mainstream newspaper, tries to be neutral), FOX News (conservative, doesn’t try to be neutral), and the Daily Kos (liberal website, doesn’t try to be neutral). Can you guess which one you have?

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/3/1495054/-Mitt-Romney-attacks-Donald-Trump-as-a-phony-a-fraud-Who-s-that-supposed-to-convince
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/03/03/mitt-romney-call-donald-trump-phony-fraud/R8WSuRoGiiVY8w8DYrSIZJ/story.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/03/open-warfare-romney-calls-trump-phony-fraud-trump-calls-romney-failed-candidate.html?intcmp=hpbt1