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Like most of my other classmates have said, I love the comic book style readings. The combination of images academic concepts together make the reading easy to understand and fun. While the more traditional academic articles may have more concepts, the graphic novel style is a nice change every so often. I enjoyed how Gladstone gave examples of the different types of biases, including the commercial, bad news, status quo, and access biases and more. Like many who posted before, I really only thought of biases meaning that people report things from either a liberal or conservative bias, not with so many examples. I also liked how she started the article with the background of Dante and how when news reports are neutral, people are angry that they do not take a side in a critical issue.
It is difficult for the news media to stay non-biased because each of the reporters have a brain and have opinions on the subjects. I do not mind a reporter using their human instinct of opinon when report and if they are biased, just as long as they make note of the biases.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed this reading, as I really never enjoyed science writing before as I’ve always preferred history over science. However, I thought that Michelle Nijhuis did a phenomenal job with her writing as it was interesting for both those who are familiar with science and those who are not. Her style of more storytelling helped with explaining what scientific writing is. The article kept my attention more so than I thought it would and was a great reading to star with after break.
The point that she made that I thought was the most interesting is similar to the other people in our class where she discusses how no science writers are not truly experts in the field they write about. It took me back for a moment, think how someone could professionally write about a science field and not be an expert, but as I read it and it I saw how that all of us are scientific writers in a way. While I am not a major in the sciences, I found this article helpful for my future as many of the principles she stated about curiosity is something we all could use, especially for papers similar to the one we are writing now.
