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Fox News is a United States pay television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox founded in  October 7, 1996. Fox News has a well developed page. The sections and the information are easy to find. For each article there is a video that makes the article more fun to read/watch. Besides, at the bottom of each report, there are links to other articles related to the topic being discussed. The news report I read about talked about the caravan coming from Central America to the US through the border and how Mexicans see this negatively. The caravan has been forming since months ago and their main purpose is to cross the Mexican-American border. A poll showed that more than half of the population of Mexico encourages the American authorities to block the borders for the caravan to cross. The poll also showed that around 70% of the Mexican population disapproves the fact that people formed in caravans want to cross the Mexican-American border ...

The New York Post is a daily newspaper in New York City founded in  1801. This newspaper page has a format with different sections well distributed. However, my first impression of this page was if I was reading a page coming from a comic movie. I could not take the format of the page serious. The fact that it includes a section called Page Six to talk about celebrities gave the page a less credible image. The news report I read about was the phenomenon El Niño forming by February. It is known to be one of the biggest natural disasters that occur along the Equator. It affects several countries especially those along the Pacific Ocean. The main effects of this natural disaster are flooding, temperature raise and destruction of crops. Although El Niño impacts negatively and occurs every few years, it was prognosticated to be weaker this February than it was in 2015-2016. This news report had an informative sense for those not only living in the main affected areas, but to t...

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC, formerly known as the National Broadcasting Company when it was founded on radio in  February 21, 1940. When I looked through the webpage, it was well developed. The news reports were easy to find. It was well divided by sections for any person's interests . It updates every hour with a lot of information and videos to make it more dynamic to read/watch. The news report I found was about the GM (General Motors) crisis. This mega company was found to be in crisis due to the poor demand in their biggest production, sedans. It seems to have given an unexpected turn for the car market. Most of their factories were destined to produce sedans, but now they have to start with other types of car production such as SUV's or trucks. Also, the news source talks about the intervention of President Trump. He promised to give economic support to the company when he was a candidate for the presidency. But now, he ...

November 12, 2018 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/llama-antibodies-may-be-key-flu-prevention-180970704/ In August of 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established by the United States government “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” It is a group of museums and research centers and is named after British scientist James Smithson. The institution includes nine research centers, nineteen museums and a zoo and has coined the title of “the nation’s attic” due to the 154 million items that it holds. The Smithsonian receives 30 million visitors annually that receive admission free of charge. This specific article speaks of an innovative idea for the flu vaccine. Normally with this vaccine, people are injected with a dead strain of the virus so that their immune system can create the antibodies needed for the real thing. This becomes hard sometimes, however, because the influenza virus evolves quickly, and it is a rather aggressive approach for people who might ...

https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/world-current-events/world-2-pakistan-death-sentence-for-innocent-christian-woman/ In Pakistan a women was executed and given the death sentence over the blasphemy of islam. In predominantly Islamic countries when someone speaks down of the religion especially if they are christians are usually persecuted. This women was imprisoned for about 8 years waiting for her sentence to be executed but hasn't yet, the islamic rulers of the country got so offended by this women they threatened to kill the judges of the Supreme Court if they didn't vote or judge to get her executed. Another factor of this there are many revolts and protest by hard line islamists to get her executed and have threatened to destroy other parts of the country and kill others. " The Pakistani government has now been accused of caving in to these hardline Islamists by agreeing to stop Asia Bibi and her family from leaving the country following her acquittal for blasphemy....

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company, owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company, and was founded in  June 15, 1945. The news source was shown in a very detailed format such as having primary information and if there was any "missing parts" to the source, there were hyperlinks to add information that will take you to a fully detailed report. The news report was about the so far youngest woman to win a Congress Election in America's history: Alexandria Ocaso-Ortez. She is Puerto Rican, economist and an international relations major and she was announced to be the youngest woman in winning an election day with the democrat party. She started off her campaign by reaching out to people who would live in inaccessible areas in the 14th district in New York and by talking to them into voting. These pasts midterms election have made history in the US. First, with the announcement of two Somali-American winning the winning ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6358811/Will-Trump-crush-Democrat-blue-wave-Americas-mid-term-elections.html The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market newspaper published in London. It was Founded in 1896, it is the UK second-biggest-selling daily newspaper. Daily Mail is an on the Online Mail website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The  chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor. A survey in 2014 found the average age of its reader was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among the significant British issue. Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership with women making up 52–55% of its readers. Americans are bracing for the results after the first polls closed in crucial mid-term elections where voters will deliver their...

Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/11/brazil-women-bolsonaro-haddad-election/574792/ Assessment of Source: The Atlantic is a slightly liberal standing American magazine company that was founded in 1857. Atlantic’s current president is Bob Cohn, who has been with the company since 2009 and has a considerable amount of experience in journalism. The author of the article is Adriana Carranca, a Brazilian woman working with the Global Migration Project. Her page on “foreignpolicy.com” says her topics include “conflict, religion, and human rights, with a special eye on the situation of women.” Summary: The new election of Jair Bolsonaro has outraged feminists globally. Bolsonaro has a history of opposition for women and minorities. His election shows the acceptance of intolerance among the country. After several marches took place protesting against Bolsonaro’s election, marches in support for him followed. His supporters are problematic because they disregard...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/lion-air-plane-lost-contact-indonesia-flight-jt610-jakarta The Guardian is a British daily newspaper and has a reputation for being liberal and left-wing in its political stance. It was founded by John Edward Taylor on May 5, 1821. Its headquarters are located in Kings Place, London. It has two sister newspapers called The Observer and the Guardian Weekly. Its edited is Katherine Viner and the newspaper is owned by the Guardian Media Group. Its original name was the Manchester Guardian before they changed the in name in 1959. Indonesia, known as the second most top country for its aviation technology, has had an incident where one of its planes crashed into the waters of the Jakarta sea. The flight was JT610 with 189 passengers, none survived. This has now been Indonesia's second worst plane accident in history. No one knows the exact cause or reason to why the plane dived into sea waters. Only thing that was on record was that the ...

   My news source for this weeks current event blog is National Geographic. It is a scientific news source that focuses on news about nature and it was founded in 1888. The interesting thing about this news source is that is has 21 members that form it and they are so diverse in career. although it does have conservatives on the members of trustees as well that will make their matter of interest bias.    The article I read this week was called, "The illegal market for tarantulas is hairy business " by the author Jani Actman. It was recently published on November the fourth and is dedicated as an awareness article towards aiding this species off spiders escape booming illicit trade as pets and display pieces. The most interesting part of this article is that it gives the legal aspect of whats being done and also demonstrated why the people really trade this spider and many more insect as such.    There is a lot of scientific language throughout the article...

https://www.ajc.com/news/fox-and-nbc-stop-airing-trump-immigrant-deemed-racist/cbtWcjEoAtePWnuroWaPlN/ This week I chose the Atlanta Journal Constitution which has to be one of Georgia's oldest newspapers. The article was about a pro-trump commercial. Apparently, it featured an immigrant convicted of murder. Which according to them and they're reports of all of the other major news companies, is extremely racist. I didn't see the commercial but it sounds like things were out of proportion at that point. The article is mainly about everyone's response. The other news companies, Trump himself and even his son. It appeared to have tried to give a fair account of what everyone thought about the commercial and for the most part it did. It also sounded like the writer was criticising everyone that thought it was racist. 

Mary Young ENGL 1102 Dr. Molly Daniel 5 November 2018 Current Event Blog 6: Fox News Assessment of News Source     Fox News has been criticized for favoring the Republican Party and conservative causes, despite employees denying any bias in their coverage. Former CEO (resigned in 2016 after allegations of sexual misconduct), Roger Ailes, was open about his political views and served as media consultants for Republican presidents: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and became an advisor to the Donald Trump campaign. Current CEO, Suzanne Scott, is the first female chief executive of Fox News has been with the company since its debut in 1996. She arose as one of Ailes’s victims and has made progress in the news source’s cultural changes and scrutiny of content. Summary     Howard Kurtz’s article, “Caravan Clash: Press Accusing President of ‘Fear’ and Falsehoods,’” discusses the media’s backlash in response to Trump’s approach to the “Carava...

The Los Angeles Times is a newspaper company in Los Angeles founded by Norman Pearlstine in 1881. The LA Times, much like most of California is a liberal based organization. It is the fourth largest newspaper company in the US and the biggest that is not on the east coast. Iran is defying military forces staged war exercises as they resist the Trump administrations harsh economic sanctions. The sanctions resist Irans oil, shipping, and banking sectors to penalize countries for doing business with Iran. Iran believes the sanctions are illegal and are hurting the average person. The Iran economy has been struggling. I think that the article is very well written and detailed. The LA Times is known to be very liberal although no bias was shown in this article. Liberals typically despise Trump so I thought they did a good job of not showing bias. The article provides great detail so you understand everything that is going on. It provided lots of facts about some of the deals with Iran. I th...

This week my source was the Washington Post they are a very self proclaimed news group who is very popular but also very unpopular to some. To me with all the research and articles i saw on the Washington Post they seem very anti Trump and very pro democratic. Every article i saw was going against anything that was republican and i think that if your going to be a news company you have to look at the good and bad in both sides to be successful. They are also very nit picky with what they chose a lot of the topics i saw were small talk and didn't even mean anything at the end of the day.     With all this being said my article was chosen because i tried to pick one that went somewhat the other way the only one i found even close to be exact! This article was about how the Justice Department will watch over the voting on election day to try and prevent voting from happening in the coming up election. It talks about how The president tweeted that anyone caught cheating will be c...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/night-of-violence-strikes-northern-virginia/2018/11/05/773c911a-e0e9-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html?utm_term=.55d80f4b4745 Assesment of News Source: This News Article came from The Washington Post who is a major American daily newspaper source who publishes in Washington, D.C. . They focus more on the national politics and the federal government within their posts. They have a solgan that started appearing on their website that goes "Democracy Dies in Darkness". The news source favors more liberal causes. Summary of Article: This article is about a shooting incident in Prince William County that left two individuals dead and one severly injured in the hospital. Police arrived at this location within the county which then leads them to being ambushed by gun fire. This leaves the cruiser that they were driving beaten up by gun shots and when the police officers fired back they hit the suspect and detained him. About 15 m...

Link to Article Assessment of the Source- The BBC is a British based news corporation that does reporting on events around the world. Originally founded in 1922, the BBC is often credited as one of the oldest news broadcasting organizations in the world. The BBC is funded through a base rate charged to all British citizens, that helps fund their broadcasting, equipment, programming, etc. BBC has been found to report things with very factual information with little to no bias in their reporting. Summary of the Article- This article details the accounts of the recent shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people and injured more. Specifically, the article focuses in on the nurse that helped the shooter recover from his injuries during his time in the hospital following his rampage. The article states that the nurse does not believe that the man is "evil" and that he is simply misguided and ignorant. The article details how many Jewish people helped the man rec...

Do you think you can buy steroids off the internet? How much do you think they are? The answer is yes you can as of 2018 but steroids off the internet for 80 to 140 according to how much you want. You can even buy drugs from other countries off the internet and they wonder where the drug addicts are coming from this is something that needs to be stopped and it’s not even illegal to buy the steroids or the drugs because so many people are buying them they can not just one point one single person it’s a frenzy that can’t be stoppped.

Link https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-troops-seen-setting-up-barbed-wire-near-mexico-border   Assessment of News Source Fox News Channel is the United States pay television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at New York. Fox News is provided in 86 countries or overseas territories worldwide, with international broadcasts featuring Fox Extra segments during ad breaks. The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. Summary The title is “US troops seen setting up barbed wire near Mexico border”. The article is about US troops, along with Customs and Border Protection officers, have been working to secure sections of the Texas-Mexico border, in part by laying down barbed-wire fencing, as new photos show. The protection reportedly includes roughly 1000 feet of fenci...

Assessment - The news article I ran into was by NBC news. The article was written by Elisha Fieldstadt. NBC news is an American broadcast television network. NBC is known as National Broadcasting Company. The president of NBC news is Noah Oppenheim. They aired the first regularly scheduled news program in America. The headquarter is located in New York City, New York. NBC also has many different headquarted such as Universal City, California, Washington D.C, London, UK, and Singapore, Hong Kong. Summary- The article was about a tragic accident located in Texas from a newly wed couple who flew in an helicopter Saturday(Nov. 3, 2018) and was killed when the aircraft crashed. They couple was Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman Byler. They couple left their wedding reception and hours after they crashed near Uvalde, Texas. The newlyweds were both seniors from Sam Houston State University. Analysis- The Article first caught my attention, because of the title. the title was, "Texas newlywe...

The Washington Post (WaPo) is an established source of news in America. They have a political leaning in their coverage and they put a focus on the government. It is published daily in Washington, D.C., where it is circulated the most. Behind the New York Times, the WaPo has the second highest number of Pulitzer Prizes—47 at the time of writing. A particular note about the WaPo is that it is currently owned by Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. The headline for my post this week is, “Amazon in advanced talks about putting HQ2 in Northern Virginia, those close to process say.” It discusses some of the details from their confidential source that claims Amazon may have picked a final choice for their second headquarters. They are careful to highlight some of the rhetoric surrounding the decision, including that some people believe it could be a controversial move. My analysis is that the WaPo is in a particularly interesting place to be owned by the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and to be exclu...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46094489 Today I am going to asset NBC news website, NBC is nationalwide and worldwide instituted that very popular in the United States, It have variety of website that you like. They have an website, but also they have Instagram, YouTube, and twitter. They are very integrate with new generation.   They are very update ,especially with United States news, they are very fast deliver resource to the people. Whenever  they release an article, they usual   have YouTube news about it. This article talk about the re sanction of oil exportation for Iran, Donald Trump restored the sanctions that the President Obama opposite.     They then  talk about that the sanction of oil exportation hurt the Iran economy. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo say Iran needed to act like normal economy or it economy crumble. It then talk about 20 nation sanction against Iran oil export. But Iran, Mr Rouhani say they will break...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-minute-hacking-investigation-rocks-georgia-governors-race/story?id=58959730 Assessment: ABC News is also known as the American Broadcasting Company but the Disney Media Company. ABC started their news broadcasts early as a radio network. Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began after they signed with a television station. It started in New York City in 1948. The news broadcasts have continued as the television network which spreaded nationwide, which was a great outcome considering it took a while to start up and get going. In the early 1900s the ABC News program were ranked third in by the viewers, leaving NBC and CNC in the top two. As of today 20/20 News, which is was airs now, is one of the most viewed news. Summary: As the election is two days away, Brian Kemp and Stacy Abrams are neck and neck. Brian Kemp decided to open up an investigation on the Democratic Party of Georgia because they believe that there was a hack attem...

CE #6 Llama blood Clue to Beating All Flu https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46078989 Assessment: BBCNEWS, The British Broadcasting Corporation operating and founded  since October 18, 1922 which is about 96 years ago. The founder is John Reith. The British Broadcasting corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London and it is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organization and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. Summary: This Article is about how scientist are on to something new and that it could be the solution to all different types of flu's. Scientist have been doing research on Llamas and injected some of top four flu strains and tested the Llamas blood and their anitbodies did very good against those types of Flu's. Flu virus is constantly mutating and changing and scientist think they could possible have found an antibody from Llamas that could get rid of ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-boy-hit-car-killed-school-bus-stop/story?id=58899376 7-year-old boy killed at school bus stop in Pennsylvania by hit-and-run driver: Police Assessment of News Source This article about the abuse allegations against catholic bishops was the tragic death of a young seven-year-old boy was written by Bill Hutchinson who is a reporter for ABC news. ABC news is a very 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 republican party point of view.                                                  Summary of Article  This article addresses the recent death of a young seven-year-old boy who was waiting...