Evaluating News Reporting

Question 1

entertain by discussing teen activities✔ inform about a teen businesspersuade teens to start their own businesses

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✔ inform about a teen business; The author’s purpose for writing this article is to.: inform about a teen business; The quotation from the article that most clearly states the author’s purpose is .: “Woodrow started his own clothing label.”

Question 2

✔ “Woodrow started his own clothing label.”“His target market was teenagers.”“’Stay stoked.’”

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✔ “Woodrow started his own clothing label.”

Question 3

✔ a statistic that can be proven true or false an individual’s judgment or beliefa subjective statement of the author’s claim

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✔ a statistic that can be proven true or false; The text “The three wealthiest Americans have more money than half of the American population” is an example of .: a statistic that can be proven true or false; The sentence “The taxes would then be invested by government bureaucrats, who have always failed at creating meaningful wealth” is an example of .: a debatable opinion

Question 4

✔ reporter commentary with loaded language an unembellished fact with objective termsimbalanced reporting with loaded language

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✔ reporter commentary with loaded language; The phrase “a mouth-watering haul” is an example of .: reporter commentary with loaded language; The quote “besides NASA equipment and experiments, the Orbital ATK capsule holds chocolate and vanilla ice cream” is an example of .: a factual statement; This article appears to be reliable because .: it reports verifiable facts with some commentary

Question 5

✔ to cast doubt on current advice on dog vaccinationsto persuade readers to vaccinate their dogsto question whether dogs should ever be vaccinated

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✔ to cast doubt on current advice on dog vaccinations

Question 6

How could the headline best be revised to make it objective?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ Valido’s Conduct under Review; Valido’s Conduct under Review; by removing "unpopular" and "conservative"; by adding a comment from a Republican senator

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