Saturday, September 5, 2015

2.6 Evaluation of General Sources


URL: .com, the source is from Business Insider which is an American business, celebrity and technology news website launched in February 2009 and based in New York City. The source may be credible. About Business Insider found here.
Author: Kelly Dickerson Kelly is a science reporter at Tech Insider, covering space and physics. She graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism with an M.A. in science and health reporting. She received at B.S. degree in biology and a B.A. degree in communication from Berry College. Kelly has previously written for Live Science, Space.com, and Psychology Today. Her qualifications were found here.
Last updated: 06/25/2015 all links within article are still active.
Purpose : The article is meant to be informational.
Graphics: The graphics show the peaceful protesters blocking the path of construction trucks.
Position on Subject: The source is not biased toward one side of the controversy. The information benefits both sides of the controversy. Scientist know the progress of the construction and the native Hawaiians know the number of protesters arrested and the success of the peaceful protests.
Links: The article had many links and some lead to older related articles.

Source 2) Astronomers to restart construction of controversial telescope in Hawaii

URL: .org, the source if from Science which was founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are based
outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research. About Science found here.

Author: The article was written by Science News Staff whose qualifications can be found here

Last Updated: 06/21/2015

Purpose : The article is meant to be informational.

Graphics: Only an artist's concept of the thirty meter telescope

Position on Subject: The source is not biased and simply states the current decision of the local

government to continue construction on the site.

Links: The article had many links and some lead to older related articles.

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