https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html?action=click&module=inline&pgtype=Homepage

The article I choose to analyze, “Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud,” is The New York Times’ report on the largest college admission scandal in the history of the United States. The authors began the article by having three short paragraphs which revealed different instances of how wealthy parents literally cheated their children into getting into some of the most prestigious schools in the country. To appeal to readers’ emotions, the authors used reasonable speculation by stating that actual hardworking students are the victims in this scandal. After using the introduction of their article to expose some of the humiliating methods rich parents used to get their children into college, the authors used court documents to back up their credibility. The article then goes into the details of specific individuals and institutions who were involved in the scandal. The authors’ perspectives were represented positively and compelling because everything in the article was truthful and all speculations made such as “there could be additional indictments to come,” didn’t seem unbelievable. The style and tone of The New York Times articles usually tend to have a left-center bias when it comes to politics. However, they have a high occurrence of factual reporting and are recognized in that category by most. Our current political climate shed light on checking the credibility of our news sources. People mistake having a bias, on either side, to having no reliability, but that is not always the case, and The New York Times is an example of a news source that has a bias but is very reliable because of their proper sourcing and respected journalism.