reading newspaper

Please spend a couple of hours browsing through newsweeklies. Some suggest magazines (but not limited to):

Suggested newspapers:

Pick an article and write a response, no more than a page long. Some issue you might want to address:

What do you notice generally?
Can you detect bias? If so, how?
How does the author construct his/her article (i.e.: inverted pyramid? Hooks? Etc).
How do the journalists reinforce or challenge the mission of their particular publication?
Please do not simply summarize the article and/or give your feelings on the topic! The purpose of these assignments is to look at articles critically and learn from professional journalists