Do Now: Complete the following sentence: I once used ________ statement/evidence to convince someone from making a [good] decision.
I once used a subjective statement to convince someone from making a [good] decision.
Task for Group 2: Students will review local newspaper and highlight the objective and subjective. Decide if the article is bias, then write a complaint (1-2 paragraphs) to the newspaper’s editor-in-chief discussing their use of prejudice in the article. After you have completed the complaint, exchange your paper with your peers and proof read using Proof Reader’s Marks Sheet, and give the reader a score using Essay Rubric.
Title of Article – Car-Drag Horror Along 3 Highways
To whom it may concern,
After reading this article in Thursday’s edition of your paper, I feel that Joe Mollica, John Doyle and Adam Nichols are completely bias towards the victim. I will admit that he/she was in a bad situation, but it wasn’t Manuel Lituma’s fault completely. As you state in the article, “The bizarre tragedy began just after 6 A.M. when the victim was stuck by an SUV as he dashed across 108th Street and 51st Avenue.” Therefore, clearly, the driv er is not at fault. If the pedestrian had not ran across the street, then he would not have been “horribly killed in a gruesome accident.”
I am appalled at the fact that you make the victim seem so innocent with your gruesome, objective statements. How can you say it was a gruesome accident if the victim did not have the chance to speak. It might have been a perfect ride, but it was the head trauma that killed him. I am also angered by the fact that you state other pedestrians, pointing out the man under the car, as being horrified. You do not have the right to state this as you do not have any quotes from such pedestrians. I hope you fix these issues in later editions.
-Stanley Switalski
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