Once you have turned in your deconstruction and rewrite from yesterday, please take a look the following: THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN ANY BIAS MATERIAL IS THIS WEDNESDAY. WE ARE STARTING A NEW PROJECT ON THURSDAY.
1. BBC News consistently represents the highest levels of objective reporting. 1. Read the backgrounhd information on this news organization.
BBC News is the department of the BBC responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.[1][2] The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost all of the world's 240 countries. Since 2004 the Director of BBC News has been Helen Boaden.
The department's annual budget is £350 million; there are 3,500 members of staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists.[1] Through the BBC English Regions BBC News has regional centres across England as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All regions and nations produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.
2. Now take a look at the following article. For each of the numbered sentences, on another sheet paper list the verbs and write a synonym next to it. (Reflect upon the extent of the verbs' emotional nuance.)
Yemen unrest.
1. At least 20 people have been killed by security forces in Yemen, doctors say, continuing a bloody crackdown on protesters that started on Sunday.
2. Snipers in Sanaa fired from rooftops at a protester camp, killing bystanders including a child, witnesses said.
3. Government forces have also begun shelling areas held by soldiers loyal to the protesters.
The opposition has promised to carry on its campaign to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
4. For months, thousands of people have been waging a campaign to depose Mr Saleh, who is currently in Saudi Arabia recovering from a bomb attack in June.
5. The opposition believes the government is deliberately orchestrating the violence to derail any chance of agreement.
6. But a Yemeni minister strongly denied reports that the authorities had attacked genuine demonstrators, telling the BBC government forces were being attacked by militants sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
7. The US and EU nations were among members of the UN Human Rights Council who used a meeting in Geneva on Monday to urge Yemen's government to stop using force against peaceful protesters.
8. Meanwhile, as the violence intensified, envoys from the UN and the Gulf Co-operation Council arrived in Yemen, in a new attempt to negotiate a handover of power from Mr Saleh.Air attacks
Sunday saw the worst violence in the country for several months, when 26 people were killed and many more injured as they marched towards the presidential palace in Sanaa, the capital.
9. In another part of the city, a firefight broke out between government troops and soldiers loyal to the protesters.
10. Hakim al-Masmari, editor of the Yemen Post in Sanaa, told the BBC that military planes were regularly flying over the city, attacking positions held by defected troops. Witnesses reported an air raid on a military base containing soldiers who had switched allegiance.
11. Tom Finn, a freelance reporter in Sanaa, said on Twitter that injured people were arriving at a makeshift hospital "by the dozen", most of them with gunshot wounds to the legs.
12. And witnesses reported that government troops were shelling areas of the city guarded by troops loyal to the protesters.
13. More deaths were also reported in the city of Taiz, south of the capital. Government denial
Yemen's Minister of Trade and Industry, Hisham Sharaf, told the BBC the clashes were initiated by al-Qaeda-linked forces within the opposition who do not want a political solution to be reached.
14."The government of Yemen and Vice President Abdul Abo Mansour gave orders to not shoot at any civilian person having a demonstration," he told the BBC's Newshour programme.
"But anyone who has a gun or a bazooka or is shooting from a vehicle, with live ammunition. What do you expect the police to do? Just to look at them?
15. Meanwhile, the UK-based charity Oxfam is warning that Yemen is at breaking point and faces a food crisis.
"A protracted political stalemate over much of the past six months has left the government in paralysis, prompting a fuel crisis that has brought the economy to the verge of collapse," says the charity in a new report.
16. Oxfam warned that 7.5 million Yemenis - one third of the population - are going hungry and said the international community needed to step up its aid response.t: Further deaths in Sanaa clashes
3. The last thing I would like you to look at for the bias unit is NPR, National Public Radio.
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming.
Go to the NPR website: http://www.npr.org/. On the same sheet as the verbs synomyms from the BBC article, list the primary headings and under each write down three stories that are being covered. Finally, listen to the hourly news summary and list two of the news stories.
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