American News has been providing important information to citizens for decades. It provides information from all around the country. The first thing that most people do when they get home is turn on the television to see the news. There are many news broadcasts wanting to provide us the latest news, which in turn can make providing news a competition. Reporters should, for the most part, try to be objective and only report the stories as they are. News reports should not be biased because it causes citizens to think a certain way about a topic; instead of the viewers analyzing and determining how they feel about the topic on the news on their own, the report has already done it for them. The article “Los Angeles’ Homelessness Crisis Is a National Disgrace” written by Times Editorial, from The Los Angeles Times (LAT) and “California’s Growing
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The article “California’s Growing Mental Health and Homelessness Crisis” written by Phillip Chen found in OCR discusses the issue of homelessness. The article displays objectivity by stating current facts about such as “[i]n Orange County alone, there are around 5,000 people that are currently homeless” (Chen). This fact is verifiable and therefore it boosts the credibility of the author. Throughout the article Chen states facts but he makes a hasty generalization about the mental state of the homeless, this is illogical which hinders his credibility. By making this hasty generalization the author is setting the tone so that the readers believe that the homeless population all suffers from a mental illness. “Thirty-nine percent of the nation’s chronic homeless population, which is defined as those individuals that have lived on the streets for over a year and are suffering from mental illness, reside in California” (Chen). This uses appeal to ignorance which is also illogical reasoning and
The article “California’s Growing Mental Health and Homelessness Crisis” written by Phillip Chen found in OCR discusses the issue of homelessness. The article displays objectivity by stating current facts about such as “[i]n Orange County alone, there are around 5,000 people that are currently homeless” (Chen). This fact is verifiable and therefore it boosts the credibility of the author. Throughout the article Chen states facts but he makes a hasty generalization about the mental state of the homeless, this is illogical which hinders his credibility. By making this hasty generalization the author is setting the tone so that the readers believe that the homeless population all suffers from a mental illness. “Thirty-nine percent of the nation’s chronic homeless population, which is defined as those individuals that have lived on the streets for over a year and are suffering from mental illness, reside in California” (Chen). This uses appeal to ignorance which is also illogical reasoning and