News Article - Week 6

See this article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/28campaign.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

This article is just about as "newsy" as you could get - which makes me wonder if it is dileberatly sticking to the rules as the election approaches. While I scoured this article, I could find nothing biased about it - it comes as close to "unbaised" as I believe you can get.

The lede is: "Senators John McCain and Barack Obama began to make their final arguments for the presidency on Monday in dueling speeches across the battleground state of Ohio." I think this is pretty simple - it addresses the 5 W's and sets up the article well. The nut graph is found in the next paragraph:

"With just a week remaining in the presidential campaign, the Democratic and Republican rivals are zeroing in on the economy, taxes and jobs as they campaign in a handful of swing states. On Monday alone, the campaigns planned to also be in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida."

This highlights the signifigance of the topic at hand (last attempts by McCain and Obama to get votes!). It's a pretty clear, to-the-point nut graph, I think.

What is interesting about this article is that instead of using sources (like the respective campaigns!) it uses sources like experts from Standord and other professors. Perhaps this is another attempt to stay un-baised...or at least to seem so.

The kicker is a quote-kicker, and the article ends:

"If big government spenders control the House and the Senate and, heaven forbid, the White House, they will have a monopoly of power in Washington,” Ms. Palin said, “and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda — it would put America on a path that erodes the strong work ethic that made America great.”