+1 862 207 3288 News Critique
Directions: Write a well-organized, coherent critique of the news report headlined “Dwarf-tossing at Windsor Strip Club Draws Fans, Critics”. Your critique should be a carefully structured essay, rather than an item-by-item run-down of the media checklist. Pages 15-17 of online Lesson 3 provide detailed guidelines for writing and presenting a news critique. In your critique: begin by stating what impression is created by the news report. (See online lesson 3 for explanation and examples of “impression”.) provide adequate and relevant reasoning to support your criticisms. end your critique by stating your overall judgement of the news report, based on the criticisms you have already made. Doing some internet research (reading other news reports about the event or subject and/or finding out more about the subject and sources) may help you to see the weaknesses in the report assigned. If you refer to information found in other news reports, cite those repports, whether or not you use direct quotations. (Provide headline, source, date, and URL.) Review the Self-Evaluation Checklist on page 2 of this assignment to guide revisions to your critique. Format your assignment as outlined in the separate document “General Directions for All Assignments” (Name on top right, double space, filename is your last name2.) Maximum length: 750 words This will require that you write concisely. Reminder: Work should be entirely your own; there should be collaboration with anyone on this assignment.
Link to News Report headlined “Dwarf-tossing at Windsor Strip Club Draws Fans, Critics” :
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/29/dwarf-tossing-at-windsor-strip-club-draws-fans-critics/ (The National Post, January 29, 2012). Taken January 29, 2012.
1. Begin by noting the impression conveyed by the news report about the events or the people, etc. being reported. ‘Impression’ is explained in the lesson 3 online notes. 2. Coherent organization. Discuss one criticism at a time, and use paragraphing to organize your ideas. One criticism per paragraph is a good plan. To indicate a new paragraph, indent the first word of the paragraph. Your critique should be organized carefully, rather than being a run-down of the media checklist items. 3. Correctly name the criticism (e.g. lack of balance, limited sources, misleading headline, etc.). Use the terms/tools provided in lesson 3 and the text. 4. Focus on the main problems with the report. It’s very unlikely that a news report will suffer from all problems on the media checklist. (If you find an example that has all of them, please send it to me!) 5. Support each criticism adequately. Making a criticism places the burden of proof on you to fully support your judgements by providing reasons. See lesson 3, “Using the Media Checklist to Write a Critique”, pages 15-17. 6. Make criticisms specific. E.g. If you said the report is topically incomplete, does it suffer from a lack of balance or lack of sources or lack or background, or missing connections, or several of these? Each requires distinct support. E.g. To support a charge of lack of balance, you need to indicate what perspectives about a disagreement have been omitted or given less emphasis than others. (And there can be more than two perspectives about a disagreement.) 7. End with your overall judgement of the reporting, based on the criticisms you have already made. 8. Write from the perspective of the reflective consumer of the news. (“It’s a great report because the headline is catchy” or “It’s a poor report because the headline doesn’t capture our attention” suggests a different perspective, not that of the reflective consumer of the news.)
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