Chapter 5: Critical Interpretation, Jayme, Hagen, Jesse

Purpose:

Ensuring the sources you attribute are reliable.

To know what sites are reliable and trustworthy.

• Checking URLs and discussion boards.
  
• Copy-Editors, Journalists as well as your average consumer.

Structures and Features:

• Uses many bullets and lists.


• Consumers don't have the attention span to read through full texts.


• Lack of images creates distaste among consumers.


• Shorter and more concise, it is textbook style and objective.


• There is a repititive use of the same words in order to fit the design of the search engines.

Power:

• The text is mostly fair in that it uses examples and references itself.


• Government and large media sites are seen in a better light because their history is more credible and reliable. Individually-published sites or blogs are seen as less credible because the reader doesn't know the writer's agenda.


• The consumers, anyone who wants solid, objective news.


• Any sites that use fact-checking, links and references to gain credibility, the readers ultimately benefit because the sites are more reliable.

Gaps:

• Citizen Journalists are mentioned but not thoroughly discussed.


• Bloggers, discussion boards.


• People who don't care about honest journalism.


• Discussion boards are not really objective because many readers share the same opinion as the blogger.

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Image from: Bellizzi