News Analysis on the First Presidential Debate
Source Information
Date: October 4, 2012
What news organization (or individual) produced this?: CNN
What is the type of news source?: Article
Content
What is the main headline?: 5 things we learned from the presidential debate
What facts (statistics, important events, etc.) are included?: that 67% of debate watchers said that Romney won. Also 1 in 4 said Obama was victorious.
Is anyone quoted? If so, who? What did they say?: A lot of people were quoted in this article. One of which was Wolf Blizter, CNN's chief anchor of the network's political coverage. who said " He held his own against the president of the United States, and for a Republican challenger that's pretty good,". Another person who was quoted was Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to the former Massachusetts governor. who said "If it was a boxing match, it would have been called,I've got to believe that the heels on the president's shoes are worn down from being back on them for 90 minutes."
What information or ideas might have been left out?: I didn't think that there was anything missing. I did think that there could have been more about what each candidate said but overall nothing missing.
Message
Who is the intended audience?: The intended audience is people who had watched the debate and wanted to learn more, or people who hadn't watched the debate and wanted an overview of it.
Does the author seem to have an opinion? If so, what is it?: Yes the author's seems to have an opinion. It is that Mitt Romney had won the debate.
What is the tone of the source?: The tone of the article is serious.
What words or phrases create the tone?: What made this article very serious was how direct it was. It didn't stray of the topic, it stuck to the point and conveyed the information clearly.
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