Assignment – Reading Analysis #1
Matt Bialick
Andrews/Media, Politics and Society
October 12, 2010
RA#1 Pravda RU
To whom it may concern,
I am an American college student studying Communications, I am writing this letter inform you on how improve your website. When critiquing your website I am not only writing to point out the negatives, but also the positives.
I would like to start out by telling you about what I liked about the site. Coming from viewing American News sources, your advertisements are minimum. Each day I have checked there has been less than 10% of the page containing advertisements. Where the adds usually are on American sites, you have more stories, or links to other stories on the website. The webpage is laid out well and easy to read. The titles are straight to the point, using a low amount of unneeded attention getters. Yet there are some. Searching what your looking for on the site is easy. Using the search function on other news websites gives you a lot of adds and misleads the viewer to look at something off subject. As a example when searching for news information it will take you to Facebook or Google. I also noticed that at the top of the page there are languages to choose from. This does not only allow readers from all over the world to read it, but specifies the articles given. This gives the reader more valuable news which may apply more directly to the people in that country.
As for criticism, I found a few things that could use to be worked on. Some words biased Russia over the United States. Pravda often uses extreme words, which mislead. Biased views are placed in the article to make it look as Russian is better than the United States. In the story “Russia, USA are doomed to remain potential enemies.” The title uses the word doomed, which implicates, that USA and Russia will not potentially be enemies, but doomed sounds like it is for sure. In the same article, it states, “Russia is the only country that is technically capable of annihilating the United States.” Again, the choice of words makes it extreme. Instead of annihilation, something like high damage would be less dramatic.
Another Article was titled, “ The cost of telling the truth in the United States.” This article talks about what seems to be the perfect US CNN employee, who was fired after saying that Jews dominate the mass media. In your story the view is that an innocent man in America was fired for expressing the truth. Yet his statement cannot really be called truth, to support this man your article stated that one Jewish man bought the third largest newspaper chain in the world. I would not consider this enough information to determine that Jews are dominated Mass Media. How about the owners of the top news media company? And the next few? Are they all Jewish? If there is more information to support that this man statement is the truth, include it.
Other titles are badmouthing America were, "wrecking the American Dream", "What we know for sure that makes aka Obama ineligible", “Neo-Nazism in the United States on the rise."
I feel that your website is set up well, and information can be found easily. I think that the words used in your articles are often extreme. I think that your websites point of view is definitely favoring Russia. Many topics on the site including America talk about how it is terrible. Most of the subjects and topics about America are negative. It would be nice if you could include more positive articles to give a less biased view.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-10-2010/115256-telling_truth_usa-0/
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