Skim through the Washington Post article and read the abstract of the article from International Security.
Consider the following questions we will discuss as a class while you read:
- What questions would you ask to critique each of these articles? Consider what you look for when you evaluate any given source.
- Are there any questions you would ask differently compared to a news source versus a journal article?
- What are your red flags when you evaluate a source?
- How would you go about evaluating the evidence in the news article?
- How would you go about identifying bias in each of these sources? What’s the difference in evaluating bias in a journal article and a news article?
- What’s the level of authority or credibility of each source? That is, how do you know whether this journal and this newspaper source are good?
- Take a look at the following infographic: http://imgur.com/gallery/iPLkz
- What do you think about this infographic? Does this resonate with your worldview of news? Why or why not?
- What are the implications for scholarly research if this diagram is true?
