Paul Hunter Zaid
Online Journalism
Journal #9
4/15/2015
1) World Trade Observatory Opening in May
The observatory at the World Trade Center will open May 29th. I selected this article for its positive angle. The observatory located on floors 100, 101, and 102 will offer new sights for visitors from a height of 1,250 feet above the streets of Manhattan. The observatory will compete with two other popular viewing sites: the Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center. Tickets will be $32 for adults and will be open 7 days a week for the summer. This announcement continues to mark the revitalization of the WTC area after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
http://news.yahoo.com/yorks-world-trade-center-observatory-open-may-213652102.html
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2) Jury Finds Tsarnaev Guilty of Boston Marathon Bombings
Nearly two years after the Boston Marathon bombings, a federal jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the deadly attacks, which killed three and injured nearly 300. Tsarnaev showed no reaction as the verdict was read after a day and half of deliberations from the jury ending an emotional 17 day trial.
The same 12 jurors who decided on Tsarnaev’s guilt will now decide whether he lives or dies for his role in the attacks. That’s expected to be a trickier dilemma for the jury. Though all jurors agreed they could consider capital punishment for Tsarnaev, many people in Massachusetts oppose the death penalty for moral and religious reasons. It was declared unconstitutional on the state level in 1982, and though many in Boston are still recovering from the trauma of the attacks, which paralyzed the city for days, residents have mixed feelings about what should happen to Tsarnaev.
http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-bombing-trial-tsarnaev-verdict-161952135.html
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Jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of Boston Marathon bombings http://yhoo.it/1y5gCul
3) ‘Freak Weather Event’ Sets Antarctic Records
A heat wave warmed Antarctica’s northernmost peninsula to just above 63 degrees Fahrenheit in March — a record high for the normally cold continent. Scientists say the balmy conditions were caused by a “freak weather event,” and cannot be directly attributed to climate change.
The temperature spike can be attributed to the peninsula’s geography and westerly winds, which do seem to be growing stronger with increasing climate change. But Laurie Padman, a senior scientist from Earth & Space Research, a nonprofit research institute, and a co-author of the study published in Science, warns against drawing a direct correlation between Antarctica’s overall ice loss and the recent temperature spike.
“For most of Antarctica, we think that the loss of ice shelves is because of changes in the amount of warm water that gets under them, and so they’re melting from below,” Padman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/freak-weather-event-sets-antarctic-heat-records-133208465.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&
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‘Freak Weather Event’ Sets Antarctic Heat Records http://yhoo.it/1yX2MFC
Media Bias
NY Times Reporters Call Out Jeb Bush’s Claim He Doesn’t Read NY Times
Mediaite’s Tina Nguyen reports on a dispute between former Florida governor Jeb Bush and the New York Times:
Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asked the presumptive 2016 GOP presidential candidate if he’d read an article in the New York Times, which reported that leaders from America’s Christian right were unhappy with Bush and sought to back another candidate.
“I don’t read The New York Times to be honest with you, so I guess you’re going to force me to do so,” Bush said.
A pair of Times reporters, Michael Barbaro and Derek Willis, checked Bush’s email archives and found evidence that in December 2006, his last month as Florida governor, Bush read at least two Times articles. In one case he wrote to Times reporter and began: “Sam, I enjoyed reading your article concerning the achievement gap.”
Nguyen asks, “Is it ‘gotcha journalism’ if the journalists themselves already have the ‘gotcha’?” and then concludes: “So many questions.”
What type of bias is Mr. Taranto implying the Times reporters exhibit?
Mr. Taranto implies that the Times reporters exhibit bias by story selection; that the reporters only investigated Jeb Bush’s emails because he is a Republican and that they will not investigate the controversy over Democratic (assumed to be) presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email claims.
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