Assignment Reminders
From your instructor:
iii. Provide an Analysis of New Media Coverage on your Environmental Topic and what are the various perspectives are on this subject including a minimum of:
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1 Liberal Media News Source
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1 Conservative Media News Source
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1 Center or more Bi-Partisan News Source
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Important Note: For your selected media articles, you must reference the bias of the sources, as well as how you determined their political skew.
Ad Fontes Bias Chart
Recommended Multi-Newspaper Database
- ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of these newspapers: The Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
Daily News
- Washington Post This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Washington Post newspaper 1987-present
- New York Times This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the New York Times newspaper (1980-present), the New York Times Book Review (1988-present), and the New York Times Magazine (1997-present).
- Baltimore Sun This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for The Sun, Baltimore (Baltimore Sun) newspaper 1990-present.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Wall Street Journal newspaper 1984-present
Semi-/Weekly Coverage
- The AtlanticFeatures articles for the general reader, reports & comments on recent events in history, humor, fiction, poetry, arts & leisure, & book reviews.
- New YorkerDiscusses current events and ideas, combining domestic and international news analysis with cartoons, sports, fashion & arts, profiles, short fiction and poetry.
- TIME MagazineNational and international news, behavior, books, business, cinema, law, education, environment, modern living, music, nation, press, religion, theater, video and world.
Science Magazines
- Scientific AmericanAuthoritative articles on all sciences by scientists who do the research reported. Edited for the interested layman. Features science and the citizen, computer reactions, the amateur scientists, reviews of current books in science and bibliographies.
- National GeographicArticles deal with interesting people, places, customs, activities and nature on a worldwide scale. Also covers National Geographic Society expeditions and discoveries.