What journalist should do...

         In the article written by the Washington Post, Paul Farhi questions when, how fast, and to what extent a journalist should go in order to get the facts and accounts from eye witnesses. 

        The author takes the view that reports should be compassionate to how they can affect the people there are going the news from but that when reporting a key part in getting a story is to get the correct information. He believes that is an important part of what news reporters do. In order to support his claim Paul Farhi uses the shooting at the community college to bring up the problem. The strength in the article was his ability to intergrate a story line with his own prompt question. The weakness in the article was not using much of his own words to write the story. Through much of the story the author would say that some had said it, or quoted them. 


         The author's argument support the main point because he uses quotes such as "This is how news is gathered and how the public gets accurate information when news breaks." This helps his clam because it gives the reader an idea of what a journalist needs to do in order to give a article to the public. The evidence did not give a final answer to the claim brought by the author so I think that the evidence did not support the claim.  


I do not think the author really did have an argument. I did fill this out like he did. The way I see it is that he just brought up a question and shown the reader what other people thought about the topic.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vultures-or-reporters-after-shooting-witnesses-hit-with-media-requests/2015/10/01/c7c53a86-6871-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

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