Assignment task: Choose a recent event or issue in the media to explore, describe the recent event or issue, and its importance in society.
1. There should be 5 sources.
2. Apply reason and analysis of the content and coverage of each source. How is the author or publication discussing this particular issue? What is being highlighted or left out of the discussion. Defend your answer using your critical analysis of the coverage. Make sure to consider bias, truth-telling, objectivity, and sensitivity, as well as author, format, audience, content, and purpose.
3. Evaluate the media coverage as a whole, looking for any common themes, practices or connections between media genres. Compare and contrast the coverage across all the media sources selected. What are the similarities and differences that exist between each type of media? What are the strengths and weaknesses that each particular type of media present as it relates to covering this event or issue?