Current Event
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901060918-1533389,00.html
The author of the article, writing about the future prime minister of Great Britain after Tony Blair's term ends, strongly and frequently expresses his/her own point of view and opinions. He/she seems to be in great favor of Gordon Brown as a new prime minister, promoting his favorable personality and abilities, possibly attempting to gain more supporters. When expressing feelings on several other candidates, the author's negativity is quite evident. He/she states that candidate John McDonnell has no chance of winning. Also, he/she criticizes flaws and disadvantages, such as not having technological strengths. The author shares a rather negative opinion of former president Bill Clinton and former vice-president Al Gore, giving the idea that they had done a poor job as politicians.
The article contains limited facts. Above all, the only non-subjective statements are poll results and true feelings of other people. It appears the author had not done much research prior to creating the article.
posted by rzaporowski @ 7:19 PM
1 Comments:
Some thoughts on your assignment, instead of putting he/she, put the author.
Also use the yellow sheet that you may have gotten.
The author also never said that he disapproved of Clinton and Gore, he is just stating that it is hard for a ruler to pick their successor in a democracy, and can not work out in a way that the ruler wants.
These are just opinions of mine, you did a good job seeing the negitivity toward candidates. If you look at the article for a while, you might find a hint of name-calling, (Yellow sheet). and you are right that article contains limited facts, and are just the authors opinion, and the people's opinion is not notiticable in the article.
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