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Which of these headlines about Obama’s speech is the least biased?
All of these headlines describe the same event – Obama’s Oval Office speech a few nights ago. These sources were not selected randomly from search results – they were all the first listing in their respective searches. Which one do you find least biased?
1. CBS – Obama Seeks to Show Control of Oil Spill Crisis with Oval Office Address
2. MSNBC – Obama accuses BP of ‘recklessness’
3. Fox News – Obama Draws Bipartisan Criticism for Using Oil Spill to Push Energy Policy
4. Huffington Post – Obama Oval Office Address: President Gives Speech On Gulf Oil Spill Crisis
5. CNN – Language guru: Obama speech too ‘professorial’ for his target audience
Number 4 is the least biased.
1 is suggesting that Obama is only putting on a show of control.
2 is alright, but is more informal than it should really be, and is trying to implicate BP as reckless.
3 is emphasizing that there is criticism, not that he is giving a speech.
4 is simply stating that Obama gave an address about the crisis.
5 is going on about how his speech was ineffective.
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