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    The document discusses biased and balanced news articles. A biased article takes sides and only presents one viewpoint, while a balanced article considers both sides of an argument equally without taking sides. It then provides two short articles about an elderly woman being arrested for chopping down a tree. The first article presents her perspective in a sympathetic light, while the second strictly states the facts from the police perspective. The document asks which article is biased and which is balanced, and encourages writing one biased and one balanced article on a topic to better understand the concepts.

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    The document discusses biased and balanced news articles. A biased article takes sides and only presents one viewpoint, while a balanced article considers both sides of an argument equally without taking sides. It then provides two short articles about an elderly woman being arrested for chopping down a tree. The first article presents her perspective in a sympathetic light, while the second strictly states the facts from the police perspective. The document asks which article is biased and which is balanced, and encourages writing one biased and one balanced article on a topic to better understand the concepts.

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    Biased or Balanced?

    If a newspaper or magazine article is biased, it means that it takes sides and does not
    give a fair representation of both sides of an argument.

    If a newspaper or magazine article is balanced, it means that it does not take sides and it
    considers both points of view in an argument or situation equally.

    Here are two short articles about the same subject. Do you think they are balanced and
    fair articles, or do they take sides and present only one point of view?

    Ain’t they got anything better to do? Woman arrested for chopping down tree

    Imagine the scene: you’re a poor, lonely Brenda Haindrock, 87, was
    87-year old woman, fiercely independent arrested yesterday for chopping down a
    and used to living alone. The house you tree in Pumley Country Park.
    have lived in all of your life becomes Police Constable U. R. Nicked said
    freezing as temperatures plummet in the pensioner was apprehended at 5pm on
    winter. You have no central heating and High Street as she dragged a tree along
    little money. In desperation you walk 3 the pavement.
    miles to a local park and cut down a tree Mrs. Haindrock, when interviewed,
    for firewood. Whilst lugging the heavy said: “I have no money for coal or
    wood home, you are stopped by the police firewood, so I chopped down a public tree.
    and arrested for destroying public I’m a member of the public so why I can’t
    property! This is policing gone mad. Why I do that.”
    arrest the poor and helpless when real A police spokesman said:
    criminals are roaming the land? “Destroying public property is a crime.”

    So, which article do you think is biased and which balanced? Why?

    Have a go at writing two articles like the ones above, one that presents a biased opinion
    of a news story and one that gives a balanced opinion.

    Your story could be about anything.

    How about a football match that one team won 11-nil?

    Or, a school that has banned all chocolate?

    Or maybe a pop star who cancelled all of their concerts, without saying sorry, because
    they wanted to go shopping?

    Or, another idea of your own!

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