Assignment Instructions:

Assignment Instructions: Activity 10: Instructions 1. Look for a news story from an Islamic news source, centered on Islam and/or Muslims in another country. Coverage of Ramadan is a good topic to focus on for this exercise. See the listing below of sample newspaper Web sites. 2. Look for coverage of the same new story in a major Unite States newspaper such as The New York Times Examples of Online newspapers (in English) • Arab News, http://www.arabnews.com/saudiarabia (Saudi Arabia) • Tehran Times, http://www.tehrantimes.com (Iran) • El Ahram, http://english.ahram.org.eg/ (Egypt) • The New York Times, http://www.nyt.com • The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com • Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com 1. After completing Activity 10: Media Analysis, compose your response to the following questions. o What you notice about the way in which the event or story is told? What is the same? What is different? What is included and excluded? (one paragraph) o Do you see bias in each of the news stories? Are events covered in non-U.S. newspapers that are also covered in U.S. papers? (one paragraph)