Watergate
by Denise Ware
Background
Background- On June 17, 1972 there were several burglars that got arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate building by Washington D.C. It wasn’t a normal robbery. The prowlers were connected to President Nixon reelection campaign, and they got caught in the act of wiretapping the phones and stealing secret documents. A lot of people wonder if Nixon really knew about the Watergate operation before it happened. There some people that do believe that he was parted of the scandal. When the people that think he was part of it they said, he try to cover up the situation by raising hush money for the buglers, trying to stop FBI.
1persepective
2 perspective
Different Bias
In the first article there are bias by story which support the point of the investigation and it has a lot of evidence. Another one bias by placement the story start off in order from begging of the scandal and to the end. The last one is bias by spin which give the whole presentation of the story what it is all about.
Different Bias
The second article had bias by placement thing where in order top to bottom and they show all the different details the important details in the story. Bias by omission there are some important info that been left out but there some info that clear to what the situation is all about.
Types Of critisem
Types of crtisem
Cited pages
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S History 2009
American Decades 2003
History.com