financial crisis of S. Korea by Bryan

I read two articles about the economic crisis of South korea from the Economist and MSNBC. South Korea, which suffered from a harsh financial crisis 10 years ago, is almost repeating the same thing now. Therefore, the government released $130 billion in the market in oreder to rescue it.
The Economist, which is a professional economic megazine, discusses about it very thoroughly by giving specific examples and quotes from the governers. On the other hand, MSNBC, did not discuss about the financial crisis deeply. It just gave me brief explanation about it. Still, those two articles were not biased but neutral. They discussed about the topic solely based on the facts.

Links: MSNBC
Economist

There are different ways of transmitting a news. Despite its being the same event, when you read two newspapers, or when you listen to two different news stations, the way they describe the event is not the same. The news i read was Jennifer Hudson's offer of $100.000 for her nephew's release. I read the article of Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago Sun-Times describes the event in a more long and detailed way, and makes it even more sensitive the description they use. They also use more citations, which at the Chicago Tribune article are fewer. Chicago Tribune describes the story in a shorter but more precise way. So, depending on which news source you decide to use, you choose the way of news you wish to take!
Megi Jani

Obama's new tax plan

In the article “Obama calls McCain tax plans ‘Outrageous’” the author stands out the negative effect of the McCain’s tax plans. The article is most about what Obama talked about the plan and he compares it with the tax plan of president, G. Bush. It is almost double reduction than that of president Bush did and, it would come out about $5,700 billion over next decade. He also mentioned the plan would reduce in the U.S corporate tax rate to 25%. Another, Obama said that the $170billion tax rebate produced 49,000 people in unemployment.
Another article talks about the McCain’s tax plan will help to create more jobs. The basic theory of the plan is the new plan will increases wage to keep more of what employees earn; which is opposite view with the above article. It says if the plan reduces the corporation tax rate, it would increase the employment rate. It also covers up the health insurance coverage.
The two articles are talking about same topic, the McCain’s new tax pans, however, they have totally opposite points. The first one more emphasizes on the negative effect of the new plan but the other one tries to explain why it is more effective. Both articles sounds make sense. However, the first article is more reasonable because he uses many reasonable data to prove his point. The other one just tells how the plans theoretically work.

-Min-

Gas prices drop

I read the news of gas prices from both CNN and ABC7. Both articles had mainly told what happened: prices of gas have tumbled nearly 53 cents a gallon in the last two weeks; Tthe Lundberg survey of 5,000 stations across the country finds the average price of a gallon of regular gas is $2.78. But more than that, the CNN also tells the detail history of gas prices in last two weeks. In addition, I also know some other informations from CNN, for example like oil prices have fallen by more than half in July, or Lundberg said that the prices seems like will not rise in a time. I will never know these if I only read the news from the website of ABC7. For this news, the article of CNN is more detail than the article of ABC7.

Lonnie Hu

Ingrid McShan's Blog

I found a website about different blogs. It list several catagories that people can choose from and read about. I read about celebrity entertainment for the blog. Its was suppose to be the latest gossip and news about your favorite celebrity. I read it and went over individuals opinions. I think its kind of cool to read what people have to say. Some people arguements i agree with but then again some things I dont. I think sometimes people are kind of hard on celebrities and they cant believe everything they read. Many people dont understand celebrities have a life too and they are just people. The site I went on is http://topsites.blogflux.com/celebrities/. The site is organized and has several topic to choose from that people can read.

gas prices-glenn foster

the two articlkes that i looked at were from msnbc and http://www.cnn.com. the 2 articles were about the rapid decrease in the gas prices across the nation. this two articles were simalar because they were based on the exact same topic, but cnn had wrote a better article because the wrote in more detail of the great down scale of prices by compairing them to curent prices in major cities. this had enlightened my economical views revolving around our gas prices across the nation.

War

US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria

this is similar to what  I am writing for my synthesis paper. It is on war. This blog was more toward the special attack on Syrian territory which is close to the border with Iraq. This blogger is basically complaining that we killed one of Syria guards on this air raid. Syria is upset and wants to investigate this situation more. Syria doesn't want to be involved in this. There have been estimated 20 a month foreign fighters into Iraq. "Syria president, Bashar Assad, has pursued indirect peace talks with Israel, mediated by Turkey, and says he wants direct talks next year. Syria also has agreed to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon, a country it used to dominate both politically and militarily, and has worked harder at stemming the flow of militants into Iraq." Trying to make Syria change its image and end years of global seclusion. This relates to my topic by this is the war that we are going through and need more propaganda. Like the photo in text messaging  page 386 to help with the war on IRAQ.

Jamie Adishian