ENGL1102Fa2018

Link: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/661845687/president-trump-to-visit-pittsburgh-after-deadly-synagogue-shooting Assessment of news source: National Public Radio (NPR), is an American media company headquartered in Washington D.C. that aims to deliver breaking national and world news. Funded privately and publicly, NPR is a non-profit membership organization. As a result of its monetary contributions from a variety of sources, NPR is considered as having a slight liberal bias. Though not as left of center as other news outlets, information presented in reporting coverage by NPR is often factual data framed in a way that attempts to influence their audience to favor liberal agendas. Summary: This article recounts the shooting that recently occurred at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and President Trump’s plans to visit the site of the massacre. Trump has been scrutinized for his reaction and response to the horrible event, and many individuals are fighting for the President...

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian, rather than military. Also, the National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, renouncing NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The new agency became operational on October 1, 1958. Since its establishment, most space exploration has led by NASA, including the Apollo landing missions, and more In 2018, NASA alongside with other companies including Sensor Coating Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Monitor Coating and UTRC have launched the project Caution (Coatings for Ultra High-Temperature detection).  The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what condit...

October 29, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/science/cancer-genetic-mutations.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront The New York Times is a newspaper based out of New York City with readers all around the globe. The company of the same name that operates the paper is mainly controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family and has been owned by this family since 1896. The company was founded in 1851 as the New-York Daily Times. The paper leans slightly left politically. The NYT has earned 125 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and is ranked 17th globally and 2nd in the U.S. by circulation. This article speaks of a couple studies done by the Wellcome Sanger Institute based out of Cambridge, England on cancer and mutations. The scientists were able to determine a few genes that when mutated could lead to cancer. It...

Assessment of News Source: The news company that published the article is Axios, which leans slightly to the left. It was founded in 2017 by the former heads of Politico, another reputable news company. Several respectable public figures have invested in Axios, such as NBC, the widow of Steve Jobs, and the CEO of Dreamworks. Sara Fischer is the author of the article. She holds a bachelor’s degree in and a Master’s degree in, both from The George Washington University; she’s worked at Politico, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post (isoj.org). Summary: Social media is being taken advantage of by people in power that want to influence and control specific audiences. Examples include the 2018 U.S. midterm election being influenced from Vladimir Putin’s party, Mexico’s political parties using Twitter to influence their elections, and the recent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia. Social media sites have greatly limited the amount of interference from...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/learning/should-columbus-day-be-replaced-with-indigenous-peoples-day.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Flearning-current-events&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection I did this current event topic on people voting to try and remove the holiday of Columbus Day, many people see it as not something to us history and rather that it is more of racially towards the native Americans because when Christopher Columbus stepped onto the americas he killed many native Americans. The natives are the original people on the United States soil and many Americans find it as disrespectful to them to have a statue and a day dedicated to Christopher Columbus that has really executed many natives. " It’s a controversial day with a turbulent history. “This historically problematic holiday — Columbus never actually set foot on the continental U...

For this week’s Current Event blog post, I chose an article from The New York Times (The NYT). It was founded on September 18, 1851, and it is regarded by many as a highly renowned and respected newspaper publication company. The NYT has won a total of 125 Pulitzer Prizes—a type of award that honors organizations for their distinguished work in journalism—and they have more than any other newspaper company at the present time. The NYT continues to be one of the most circulated newspapers in the United States. The article I read makes a hypothesis about solutions for improving ethics within Silicon Valley companies, through the criticization of Google, Facebook, Tesla, and others. The author highlights a recent incident in which a journalist was reportedly beheaded by Saudi Arabian leaders, and she discusses their connection to companies in Silicon Valley. The article attempts to analyze why there is an ethics problem, and how there is now, more than ever, a need to finally address it ...

Mary Young ENGL 1102 Dr. Molly Daniel 22 October 2018 Current Event Blog 5: USA Today   Assessment of News Source     USA Today reportedly has a centrist audience, meaning there is typically no lean towards left or right views. Owned by Gannett Company, a print media corporation, that also prints newspapers such as the Detroit Free Press, The Indianapolis Star, and The Cincinnati Enquirer. The founder of USA Today was Allen Neuharth, who was a respected journalist and even won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. The current president and publisher is Maribel Perez Wadsworth, a veteran journalist that was also named corporate staffer of the year. Summary     Author, William Cummings discusses the controversial statement made by the Trump administration regarding the transgender community in his article, “Activists Vow Transgender Americans #WontBeErased by Trump Administration.” According to Cummings the “Trump administration ...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/border-tensions-boil-france-dumps-migrants-italy-181022113500924.html This al Jarreeza, An Arab news website,that cover new world wide, they are very popular in West Asia, or Middle East, they have English based new website for people to understand in English. They cover varied of new from different part of the world. Most of the news are dealing with not only with Asian continents, but worldwide like Africa, Americas, and Europe.   They both have YouTube channel, and website and article for people to read in.   This talk about the relation between France and Italy are in conflict because of immigration. Italy accused of deporting immigrants for Italy.   This happens at place call Claviere in the Italian Mountain,   The   Italian are expecting an investigating.     The Italian Minster Matteo Salvini say that "French is trespassing, and dumping immigrants", and "he say that Italy is no longer the refug...

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/ryanair-slammed-for-not-removing-racist-passenger-who-was-filmed-complaining-about-seatmate Assesment of News Source: The Source of this article came from Fox News. Fox is an United States pay yelevision news channel created by an Australian-American named Rupert Murdoch. Foc News is known for biased reporting towards the Republican Party even though many of the news reporters hired by Fox news say that they are not. But they continue to be a reliable news source throughout millions of households within the US. Summary of the Article: This article is about an older white male creating a racsist scene towards an older black lady on a flight owned by Rayanair. The older guy refused to sit next to her and was verbally aggressive towards her to either move on her own or he will move her. Flight attendents tried to calm the situation down but the end result came to them finding another seat for the woman and giving no consequence to the older male. Be...

Fox news is one of the main US news sources founded in October 7, 1996. It is known  for promoting a conservative or right-wing agenda. This media source presents the news in such a way that pathos is very strong and the audience interacting formulate comments in the same way. Logos is very poor due to its lack of information and relevant facts which would give ethos a much stronger voice. The news report is about a young man being killed by cops in Georgia. This 18 year old man was found to be the main author of the murder of officer Toney. Officer Toney was sent to check a suspicious parked car in which Tafharee Maynard, the murderer, was in. Maynard started the shoot apparently out of nowhere and shot officer Toney. Officer Toney was covered by his coworkers but Maynard finally escaped. Hours after the crime, officer Toney was declared dead. After two days of hard search, cops finally found Maynard in a shed with a lawnmower blade and because he didn't follow instructions given ...

Today my current event source is NBC news. NBC is a very well known TV station with high credibility and another solidity factor to me is I have never heard anything bad about NBC from either side of political views. I did some research into NBC with this being said because I wanted to know what they were all about. NBC is about always being factually correct and trying to have no bias at all. They were founded in 1940 and before posting any news they always have several analysis on these articles to check facts and solidify the content. The article i chose was about why most athletes are not arrested for on the field fights. Although this insident was not on the field it was on the basketball court. In the los Angles Lakers Vs. the Houston Rockets game Chris Paul or (CP3) was caught in a all out brawl with Rondo and tempers fired up fast causing both players to be ejected yet no one arrested. Some people ask the question why was one player not arrested for assault like any other per...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42251921 The article I chose this week is from The British Broadcasting Corporation. Written by a meteorologist at BBC. It's called; "Is climate change making hurricanes worse?" It begins by explaining how bad 2017 has been and how the hurricanes then, broke some records. Then, It surprised me. The author had done his research. He starts making claims about the biggest, wettest, and costliest storms. But he backs it up with charts and statistics. Stating that the earth has increased in temperature one degree. He concludes that there is no upward trend because the annual storm energy ranges the same because surrounding years are still calm. It impressed me. He was informative and had evidence. It was technically an opinion article because it's part of the news but it provides great insight to how bad hurricanes have been lately.

I read an article about will President Trump's withdraw from nuclear treaty spark an arms race or Russian compliance. The article was written by NBC News. NBC is the National Broadcasting company and was founded in 1926 making it Americas oldest broadcasting company. NBC was founded by David Sarnoff. NBC News is slightly liberal. Over the weekend President Donald Trump withdrew the United States out of a nuclear agreement with Russia made between former President Ronald Raegan and Russia. The agreement was designed to keep ground based missiles out of Europe. Trump said Russia has been violating the agreement for years. Former President Obama also accused Russia of breaking the agreement. However Russia also accused the United States of breaking the agreement. I think the author does a good job of providing the whole story and not just certain details. Even though NBC is known to be slightly more liberal they did not show any bias when talking about Trump. The article had nice visu...

Assessment of News Source Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news that based pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of AT&T’s Warner Media. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and Studios in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarter at the CNN center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. Summary The title is “Suspect in Atlanta-area police officer’s slaying killed in the shed after showing lawnmower blade, chief says”. On Monday shot and killed the suspected shooter in the weekend slaying of a suburban Atlanta police officer. Officers fatally wounded Tafahree Maynard during an attempt to apprehend him, Gwinnett County Police Chief Butch Ayers told to rep...

   The source chosen for this weeks current event blog was The Hills news.  It is an American political news source published in Washington D.C in 1994 by Capitol Hill and is owned by news communications. The Hill focuses mainly on the news that contains political, policy, business and international relations. It is a newspaper journal as well as a website. Although, I did investigate on media bias/fact check and they are categorized as a left centered bias which is liberal.    The article I chose was " Trump: US to 'begin cutting off' aid to countries associated with migrant caravan" by Brett Samuels. It projects the actions our government is taking towards thousands of immigrants fleeing their countries to find safety from violence and gangs in their countries. Samuels describes that the government is deciding to take away from the countries in a form of punishment for not stoping the caravan of immigrants. He also mentions that the president of the United St...

Link to Article Assessment of the source- NBC has been found to show little bias in their reporting, and if there is, it is a left-leaning bias. NBC is the oldest broadcasting network in the United States. Founded in 19126 as a 4-hour news station. NBC started as a child of three major corporations at the time: Radio Corporation of America, American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (AT&T), and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Summary of the Article- This article describes the efforts of Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and businessman, and his company: The Boring Company, to build underground tunnels around the country to provide rapid transportation throughout major cities in America. This article talks about one of Musk's latest tweets saying, "first tunnel almost done." The tunnel in question is in Los Angeles California, and according to Musk and the article the tunnel will be finished by December, and provide 155 mile per hour transportation throughout the city, alb...

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/lyft-driver-has-mental-breakdown-during-ride-california-passenger-says Fox News is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group and was launched on October 22, 1996. Its slogan is "Fair and balanced. Most watched. Most trusted. Real news. Real honest opinion." where its headquarters are located in New York City, New York. This media is towards conservative political bias and voices more of a Republican opinion. Fox News' currently CEO is Rupert Murdoch, a Australian-born American media mogul, since July 21, 2016. Fox News is provided in over 86 countries today. Christie Gomez was just ordering a LYFT ride to meet with her husband at the hospital. As she was in the car, her driver was in the even of a nervous mental breakdown. Unsure on what to do about this situation, she asks to be pulled over to go use the restroom at a Starbucks and gets dropped off. The driver was then found in a bathroom at a local gas station locked inside covered in soap ...

Assesment:  The article I found is from Times. Times is an American weekly news magazine. Although they are known for their news magainze, their news websites are very popular as well. They were published in New York City. Henry Luce orginally founded Times in 1923. Times is the world's largest circulation for a weekly news magazine. Summary: The article I choosed is about a dozens injured in a party after the floor collaspes in South Carolina. Most of you has probably seen the video of the huge party going on and the middle of the floor just collaspes. About 30 people were taken to the hospital. The private party was taken placed at a clubhouse in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson City Police said no one was trapped and none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. Police said the event was a private party by a group that had leased the clubhouse at the Woodlands Apartments. Analysis: It seems the article didnt have any objective of persuading the audience anything. The...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus Catholic Bishops Promising to Fix Sex Abuse Problem Face Cover-Up Accusations Assessment of News Source This article about the abuse allegations against catholic bishops was written by Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times. Laurie has been a major journalist for the religion department of the New York Times since 1997. Before working for the New York Times  she worked for several other high caliber newspapers such as the Washington Post. The New York Times is one of the most well know and influential newspapers in America at this time, and although they claim to be 100% impartial, in recent times they have seemed to lean more towards a democratic party point of view.                                 ...

Daniel Craft 10/21/18 Blog 5 English 1102 This horrible tragedy started just after 2:30 p.m. when the Gwinnett County Dispatch Center received a phone call to 911 stating there was a car parked around Crumps Landing Road and White Road, just behind Shiloh Middle School. The caller believed the people inside were smoking marijuana.Two officers pulled up to the suspicious vehicle and parked their cars. Moments after the officers stepped out, a series of shots were fired at them through the glass of the suspicious car. Officer Toney was hit. Police said the bullet missed his vest and struck him directly. He was rushed to Gwinnett County Medical Center in Lawrenceville where he died. The second officer started returning fire at the suspects and was able to pull the officer that was hit to safety, the second officer was not hit. After that the suspectst took off in their car and ended up wrecking it about a mile down the road the cop at the time was not chasing after them witness...

CE BLOG #5 http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-brewers-plaschke-20181020-story.html Dodgers return to the World Series where they will try to complete the dream that ended in a nightmare last season. Assessment: The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It has the fourth-largest circulation among United States newspapers, and is the largest U.S. newspaper not headquartered on the east coast. The paper is known for its coverage of issues particularly salient to the U.S. west coast, such as immigration trends and natural disasters. It has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of these and other issues. As of June 18, 2018, ownership of the paper is controlled by Patrick Soon-Shiong, and the executive editor is Norman Pearlstine. Summary: This article is about last nights win by the LA Dodgers baseball team making franchise history by making it back to the world series on back to back sea...