Update on the EL 150 breaking news exercise

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Students in EL 150 had a brief assignment in which they were asked to look at two different versions of a breaking news story -- one of which was very biased, the other was more balanced. The biased story included a sensationalized headline that claimed a girl was murdered by religious extremists performing an exorcism, but the latest word is that police are now ruling out an exorcism.

See: Police: Exorcism was not involved

The version of the AP story I found doesn't include quotation marks, which means the reporter's objective voice appears to mingle with the opinions qouted by the sources. It's a disorienting experience.

When they were walking with no clothes on, they told the officer theyre doing this because God told them to. If thats communication in their mind from some higher being, I hope its not yours and my God, Quigley said.

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I think "Nick" should be printing a retraction right now :-) Now look who's the moron.

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