The social issue of cancer was pushed upstream in this article because the factors that are increasing survivor rates were looked at and discussed in depth. There was enough context to make this brief story be relevant and important to the rest of society. It provided statistics and expert opinions and offered solutions as to how the issue will improve in society in the future as well. The article could have benefited from another source with sentimental appeal since the idea that cancer is becoming more curable is very inspiring. Overall, this article did a good job of conveying the the news in an appropriate and newsworthy fashion.

The author of this article relied too heavily on quotes from his sources. He did a good job of finding the appropriate experts to comment on the news itself, but he fails to support the quotes with the appropriate context and meaning that they require to make it good journalism. I found myself thinking that I read a lot of reaction to the news of the judge upholding the reform, but I did not receive much information about the news itself and I did not give the author too much credibility at the end. Nonetheless, it is well-sourced and newsworthy to the public. He does not take the social issue upstream by offering any possible solutions, the article is much more of an outside commentary on the event.

This article does a good job of looking at bipolar disorder and the study conducted on it, but what it fails to do is determine the context and importance of what the disease means to the rest of society. It is well written and supported with relevant expertise, but the story could greatly have benefited with a source that has been effected by bipolar disorder and how the study will effect those who currently have the disease. The issue was pushed upstream somewhat, but the lack of expressing what problems bipolar disorder had previously created did not allow the given solutions to have much meaning.

I honestly did not find anything wrong about this article and thought it was great journalism all around. It examined the study's findings, the study itself, and the implications of the findings in depth and related them to multiple facts of other social categories. The author takes the issue upstream by looking at past data from the same survey and determining the reasons of why those numbers are changing. This issue in society is often misread and the younger generation is thought to be more rebellious and sexual, but the data clearly suggests that efforts to support increased condom use and abstinence have been effective in the past decade.

I thought this was a fairly good example of journalism because it presents a lot of context to the story as well as provide expert insight and all the relevant information necessary. I had never heard of the "metabolic syndrome" and it was very interesting to hear about how this is developing into a major health issue. While the article states the specific news at hand, it also discusses why this is becoming more important and ties the diet into the bigger picture. The article does not really go upstream to address social determinants. Something the author could have done is examine why rates of the metabolic syndrome are increasing and what factors are causing the disease to become more prevalent.

This article is not great journalism, but it does the job of reporting the newsworthy story. One of the major problems I have with the story is the title itself. This is an example of an unconscious steroetype that is used by the author. The title makes it sound as if black men as a whole say that doctor's visits are often a bad experience. In order for that to be true, there would need to be a large majority of a massive study group reporting those claims. The study from this article was based only on 105 men all in the state of Michigan. The author should not have deceived readers with the title he used and used the small group of men to generalize for black men as a whole which is not a good idea in journalism. However, the ... More »

This piece is somewhat alarming to me and I am surprised that these kinds of diseases are not in the news more often. While the facts in New York City support the idea that a devastating outbreak is unlikely with the diseases like cholera or Lyme disease, I had no idea that these infectious diseases came up so often in the United States. It makes since with NYC being the global capital that is is and all of the foreign visitors it receives, but as the author mentions at the end of the story, there is a perfect storm that could really create a deadly epidemic. The only fault line majorly discussed in the article is geography because more or less the diseases will have the same effect on all humans if they are contracted. Race ... More »

I thought that this piece was very insightful and quite interesting, but some of the basic foundations of good journalism were missing. While it is an opinion piece, there still should have been some expert quotes in the story so that the audience received a view other than the author's. There also was not enough context provided about the health care law and too much was assumed to be known by the audience. This can certainly be challenging when writing an opinion piece, but journalists always have to show the entire picture in their writing and know that it is for others to read and not for themselves. The fault lines of health coverage are not focused on in detail in this article, it is more of a general take on the health ... More »

This article that looks at health insurance among different generations and social classes in Maryland does a great job of providing factual background and context. This information is newsworthy because of the strange fact that the numbers of health care coverage have stayed relatively constant even though unemployment has fluctuated. It is very well-written, but I wish the author had incorporated race into the piece so that we could see how different ethnic groups compared in the Maryland community. That was the only fault line of health care coverage that was left out. The article is good journalism without it, but would have been even stronger if race was incorporated into the story.

This is good journalism because it does a good job of reporting a newsworthy story and backing it up with many statistics and fact-based evidence. What the article lacks is expansion on the facts and the nut-graf is a little unclear. While there are quotes from some credible sources in the research area, the quotes lack depth and are a little too concise to put meaning to all of the data we are given. There could be a little more about concerns in the past regarding abortion and mental health, as well as a look to the future and how this new found knowledge will effect society. The author does not use stereotypes throughout the article because he always provides research proof that any kind of labeling he uses is indeed true. An ... More »

This is great journalism because of how much it covers with such concise writing. The author tells the news story, backs it up with quotes and statistics, and ties it in to the overall bigger picture of how it relates to society. One thing that I found really interesting in the article was that it identifies the health disparities of geography that we have talked about in class as it discusses how vaccines against HPV are not available to women in developing countries. Science and technology has readily made vaccines for these diseases, but society has failed to figure out the proper way to equally distribute the vaccines to poorer countries around the world. I believe the frame of responsibility for this issue is both ... More »

This is very good journalism because it is able to take a major social problem and frame that within a nutgraf that ties in to health and overall well-being for children. It is both factual and contextual and really presents a problem that is newsworthy and worth taking a closer look at. Texas is one of the most economically successful states in America, yet their children are receiving less education and less health care than almost all other states. The next generation of Texans is at a serious risk of having poorer, unhealthier lives and greatly shortening their life expectancy. There is a major relationship between society and science in this article because Texas has the money to treat their children with proper health ... More »

This article is an example of good journalism on an issue that really matters in the area of health. Lucia Sayre takes responsibility for creating a modern, more nutritious way for hospitals to feed their patients. The writer does an excellent job of quoting both Sayre and experts that know her to really glorify the actions she has taken. After describing the actual news of Sayre working with many hospitals to serve local, natural food, the writer then connects the story to the larger picture of how sustainable foods benefit both society and the environment overall. This issue demonstrates the dilemma in society between using technology to create cheaper, but unhealthier foods or go with more expensive, healthier foods. One ... More »

While this article is very newsworthy and interesting, I found that it lacked supporting statistics to convince me that the story was true. Oxford researchers are certainly a valid source, but the author could have expanded on the study when he said that free market countries experience "one-third" more obesity than others. I felt like that statement was too bare to really tell me anything. Nonetheless, this article comes at a relevant time as we are still in poor economic times and presents alarming news. People have to deal with many social factors that can be dangerous to one's health such as insecurity. Obesity is a major problem that will be better controlled in the future as scientists continue to find the healthiest ... More »