Instructions
Explore the AllSides Headline Roundup (www.allsides.com/headline-roundups), and identify the article you will focus on for your 2.6 Analysis Essay about media bias.
Write a proposal (or a plan) for your rough draft. Include the following information in your proposal:
The source information for the article you will write about:
The author’s full name.
Article title (in quotation marks).
The publication title (in italics).
The date of publication.
A URL link to the article.
State the topic of the article, and why you chose it. What specific journalism genre does the article belong to? What characteristics are usually associated with this type of article?
Discuss your understanding of the bias of the article. How does AllSides label it? Do you agree or disagree with the label assigned by AllSides? Why or why not? Write a paragraph or provide a bullet list with textual examples to illustrate how the label is or is not accurate.
Reflect on how easy/medium/hard it was for you to identify the media bias in the article. On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being the easiest and 10 being the hardest, what number would you give this article? Write a few sentences to explain your number.
