News Article Review
News Article Review Instructions
This week, you are required to submit brief essay, which discuss current news articles that relate to public policy. The purpose of this assignment is to encourage you to evaluate current public policy issues and their treatment in the media in light of the concepts covered in the readings and discussions occurring in the course. The news articles you select should illustrate a real-world application, or, where appropriate, a lack of application, of one or more of the concepts covered in the readings of the same module. Your essays should be critical reviews of the articles, meaning that you should provide your own analysis regarding the articles, rather than simply summarizing them.
Review is due by the end of the module/week in which it is assigned. Review the News Article Review Grading Rubric to improve the quality of your essays and be sure to adhere to all of the specific guidelines described below.
News Article Selection Guidelines
The articles or news stories that you choose should be:
- found in a newspaper, on a news program, or from another reputable media source (including reputable internet sources),
- published within the last month,
- clearly illustrating the application, or failure to apply, one or more of the concepts covered in the course during the week/module of the assignment.
Each article review must cover different topics. Refrain from using follow-up pieces or multiple perspectives of the same topic. For example, if you find an article discussing a new government regulation in The New York Times, you cannot use a follow-up piece put out a few days later in the same newspaper or a different article in a different newspaper discussing the same topic.
Essay Guidelines
Your essay should be 1-page, double-spaced. In the essay, you must summarize the article in order to demonstrate your comprehension of the content. Additionally, you should identify key elements discussed in the article and relate those elements back to concepts discussed in the course. Discuss whether the situation described in the article implements any of the concepts discussed in the course or if there are possible ways that concepts from the course could be implemented.
At the end of the essay, provide the complete citation for the article (including the publication date). If possible, you should include the actual article either by pasting it at the end of the document or by providing a link to the article. Format the essay and citation in current Turabian style.
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Affordable care act has remained a center of attention and ferocious partisan debate in the United States. The public policy is the current subject of talk show vitriol, congressional debates and town meetings including negative television ads which cost approximate of $450 million. Since the implementation of the Obamacare act, the bill has, unfortunately, led to certain undesired impacts. Most people are aware the Obamacare bill has failed to fulfill its promises and unfortunately has caused more problems to businesses and citizens. Republican members who are vying for election this month are attacking the healthcare law. According to Bohlen (2014), democrat candidates are running away from this issue during this election season. Democrats have known that they do not have anything to gain from focusing on this issue.
However, all is not lost as the Obamacare act has brought significant outcomes. For example, it is good news to hear the number of uninsured people in United States is now declining. It is also vital to beware that it is an election season, and therefore republicans are taking advantage of politicizing this issue. The affordable care act is a new bill. It in its new phase of implementation, and therefore challenges must be experienced. It is significant to know the truth of the matter. For instance, it is clearly known that simply because some individu...