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Clip stories from campus and local newspapers that illustrate:

1. The two kinds of attribution:
   1. Statements that are attributed to a source.
   2. Information about events not witnessed by the reporter that is attributed to a source.
2. A trial balloon (see Chapter 2 in the textbook for a description of the term) and a media-event or pseudo-event. What do you think the motives of the source are?
3. Unfairness that falls into these categories:
   1. Slanting: Using material that is favorable to a person or a policy and ignoring contradictory, relevant information.
   2. Distorting: Using material inaccurately with the intention to mislead.
   3. Quoting out of context: Using quoted material to make a point the original material did not intend.
   4. Name-calling: Using words that have an unpopular or unfavorable connotation.
   For number 3 you may use any material you have heard or read—books, magazines, television, advertising, editorials, columns.
4. The use of human interest to make a technical or complex story more interesting and easier to understand. Also, find an example of a story that could profit from the introduction of human interest. What kinds of people, or which specific individuals, would you interview for the story?