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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Journal 9

I used MonsterCrawl while searching for credible cites.
1) .GOV
I typed in "censor* media site:.gov" the first article that I found was, "FCC and Freedom of Speech."
ASPECT- Authority: The FCC wrote and published this article. Purpose: It wants the public to know what and how much the broadcasters can and cannot say. Also to let the public know what the FCC's job is and how much they can regulate.
2) .COM
I typed "censor* media site:.com" and the first article that I could find was, "Media Censorship Pros and Cons." ASPECT-Evenness: This article states both sides of the argument, positives and negatives of censorship. Timeliness: It was published on September 23, 2011, so it is still a very relevant source of information.
3) .EDU
I typed "censor* media site:.edu" and the first article I came up with was, " ALAN v21n2-The Censorship Connection-Censorship Matters." ASPECT- Authority: The woman who wrote the article is a professor at Kent State University in Ohio and also the editors of the website are from LSU and Vanderbilt. Coverage: It talks about censorship in not only media but in texts books also. It covers an away of information about censorship.
4) .ORG
I typed "censor* media site:.org" and the first article I came up with was, "Censoring the Conservative Media."ASPECT- Authority: It was written by Cliff Kincaid who upon looking into him further was awarded several journalism awards and attended a University and obtains a Master Degree. Evenness: It talked all about the censorship in various sources of media and outstanding issues in our country-about how it effects such issues like Gay Rights, AIDS, Televised News. 
      Personally I would prefer to find articles with the .gov or .org ending. I feel as though those with such endings are more credible and tend to have more backings than those just ending in .com. I found this journal to be very informative, I did not realize I could sort my search results by the .com, .gov, .edu, etc. It was actually very helpful to see the differences it makes just by searching specific endings.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Malari:

    You didn't include the full citation of each article/web site so I can't determine the credibility. You did evaluate so I imagine you explored the about us sections and determined the validity of each resource. It is nice to be able to search specific domains to limit and focus your results.

    Thank you for your efforts,
    Andrea

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