Critical Process of News Coverage: Hurricane Katrina 2005 paper
I have been researching the natural disaster Hurricane Katrina that happened in August of 2005. I have looked into the way different companies, writers, and news anchors approach "news coverage" and how they present it back to the public or audience. I have discovered there is no news in which there is no bias.
Cynicism is at play. Cynicism is the view that involves some form of intolerance with either too much or too little information causing bias thoughts about the event or topic. However Cynicism is not Criticism. Criticism involved the 5 step critical process that create a critique based on research (discription), analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and engagement.
There will always be news, wither it be on TV, or newspapers, or even articles that will omit information in order to persuade or inform their own evaluation of the event. I do hope there is a day where news reports all the truth with all the facts, however they should incorporate story, narrative, imagery, visuals and descriptive languages in the way they present the story. As well has have it all done in a reasonable amount of time, not too long and not too short. Too long would bore and become dry and too short would make it a teaser than a news.
