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According to an NBC Nightly News report (2011) on a Monday afternoon of April 5, 2010 a massive sound of underground explosions burst through the Upper Big Branch Mine located in southern West Virginia killing twenty-nine miners. This was reported to be one of the worst disasters in the United States since 1970. Based on the information reported on the NBC Nightly News (2011), the owners of Massey Energy along with the Health and Safety Administration fail the responsibility to ensure the safety

posts or my laptop for online news articles. The results were actually alarming; I’ve come to believe that I am on my phone far too often throughout the day. The media outlets that I use the most often is Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Buzzfeed, DailyMail and television’s nightly news programs such as News 4 New York or NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. In our modern-day society, I believe the platforms on social media have become the most commonly used source for media news and entertainment. Aside

debate of the 2016 election was held between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. The debate was divided into six segments approximately fifteen minutes long, each beginning with a question chosen by the moderator, Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. The topic of “Achieving Prosperity” opened the debate, focusing of jobs and taxes. “America’s Direction” was the subject of the next two segments, which consisted primarily of questions based on the racial divide in America. The final matter

the news. The news media implicitly apply filters to their coverage of news stories to inform the public thereby creating a narrative skewed by political or financial gain to influence their viewers. Because the media is privatized, it is difficult to recognize this propaganda system. Careful dissection of the time and space dedicated to each story covered by the anchors between networks and newspapers highlights this discrepancy. A cursory examination into ABC World News and NBC Nightly News reveals

27). In short, we were using these stories - about John McCain’s surgery, sink holes in Florida - to entertain our minds and to spark dialogue between our family. The quality of the news - the human interest pieces, the conflict between senators - and the transitions between events, elevated the most mundane information to artistic endeavour, keeping us engrossed throughout the evening. Yet, while consuming this entertainment, I

As a member of Madison West Rocketry, I participated in two main competitions. The first was the Team America Rocketry Challenge, where teams must build a rocket that flies to 800 feet within 42-45 seconds and safely returns an egg to the ground. My team placed 32nd out of more than 700 teams across the nation. The second was the NASA Student Launch program, where teams must build a rocket around a science or engineering payload, safely fly to a one-mile altitude, and write and present several pieces

Women As News Anchors Women in all careers are striving to gain equality in the work force today, and female television news anchors are definitely part of the fight. The road to television news anchoring is a rocky one, where only a few women survive and many fail. Where progress was once thought to have been made, there aren't many females getting ahead in the world of television news. Today, there is a very slow, if any, gain in the numbers of women who succeed. There are many questions

deliver quality news that stands out from their competitors, this can have an impact on the material that they decide to use. Journalists, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosensteil’s were guided by these beliefs and formed a definition of journalisms primary purpose which is “to provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing.” (Foreman 2010 p.25) In his book Media and Journalism Ethics S.P. Phadke has stated that journalists are the formulators and disseminators of news they have a

The reason that the evidence and the claim are important because it explains what is the good and bad parts of sports. Both sides are still taking about sports and what are the benefits and the disagreements are the benefits is that they would make new friend and stay in the sport, but the bad thing is that they may not enjoy the sport and they may just want to quit. Parents should not pressure the child so much into doing that

Sexual harassment accusations regarding public figures has been one of the most popular news we see on social media these days. “Sexual harassment becomes a crime only when there is a nonconsensual touching or sexual contact that can be prosecuted.” (Henning, 2017). Some of the accused individuals are admitting their guilt in some of these situations, while many are denying these allegations, particularly those that occurred decades ago. In many of the instances, money and other valuable considerations