The DREAM Act was dealt a blow this week, but it’s already back for more. On Wednesday, the day after the defense authorization bill failed to clear a motion for cloture in the U.S. Senate and stalled efforts to attach the immigration bill and a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal as amendments, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin reintroduced the DREAM Act. Full Story »
Posted by Breanna Kingery - via Google News (Immigration)
I believe that this story was telling the truth, but I would not recommend others to read this story. The information seems to lack evidence to back up its claims, and the interviews seem to be one sided. The writer should have interviewed more congressmen in order to get a wider scope of the issue. The story also lacked some background information, since you would have to know about the DREAM act to get a full understanding of the article's meaning. They are not lying in the story, but the claims are not backed up as well as they should be backed up.
Its interesting to see how a bill such as the DREAM Act can be attached to yet another controversial bill, the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell bill. It makes me wonder under what circumstances are political leaders and lobbyist are willing to do to see a bill pass. Under what conditions will a bill be able to die? I’m not stating that it should. It’s just interesting to see that even though a bill might not pass on its own, there is always a way to “push it threw”.
This story is decent journalism. The only problem is that if you don't already know the background on the DREAM Act, you may be lost when reading this. As someone who hasn't spent a ton of time with it, I wanted to get a little more information before I moved on with this article. They did talk to a few people and showed possibilities for the future, but spent most of their focus on that.
I believe this is good journalism because Julianne Hing actually goes more depth into the article, than when I read the article written by Mike Ullis. Julianne goes back into the date of 2007 to bring up a bit of history behind this bill, and I believe that is very important in order to have a good story, and solid facts and information.
I really liked the article, and I believe it had a lot of factual information in it that I could use to broaden my knowledge on this topic.
“In 2007 when the DREAM Act was also being discussed, Sen Kay Bailey Hutchinson wanted to change the language of the bill so that instead of ... More »
The story gets right to the point, but doesn't offer much background information. It merely states when the bill was proposed and denied and the article acts more of a snapshot of the current event rather than a full length and insightful story. Tthe article did not serve a very good purpose since it states common knowledge of the current event. Although it is information (stating the basic facts) I would not recommend anyone to read this story. The writer is rather biased within the ... More »
While I did find some of the information in the article informitive, it didn't seem clear. There was a surplus of information that wasn't catagorized efficiently. I don't think that the article was bad, but it definitely needs some work in it's basic composition. It should have been longer, and the information should have been spread out a little more.
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