Answer the following question with at least one substantial paragraph.
In what kinds of journalistic writing are you more likely to find the personal opinion of the journalist or writer? In what kinds are you least likely to do so? Why?
2) What is bias? Please consider each following topic and discuss, in a few sentences each, whether and how a writer should, or should not, be biased toward or against it.
a) Nazism
b) Slavery
c) Jim Crow
d) Women’s rights
e) A particular tax policy
f) Academic freedom
g) Municipal policies on animal control and no-kill shelters
3) What is “fake news”?
Here are two pieces of writing about “fake news” from The Washington Post. What’s the difference in writer’s intention between these two stories?
