Biases in News
As Camp fire, Woolsey fire and Hill fire blazing across California, up to thousands of structures are destroyed and hundreds of people are in the threaten. The heavy smoke has already covered the sky of the state and face masks were sold out in the stores. The fire department called for federal aid, but Trump tweeted blaming “gross mismanagement” for the devastating California wildfire.
The CNN news reports “President Trump’s tweet on California wildfires angers firefighters, celebrities.” It is mainly about summery of comments by the presidents of the International Association of Fire Fighter, the president of the California Professional Firefighters, and some celebrities responding to the three tweets tweeted by Trump. With the subtitle “Official: Tweet is ‘ill-informed’,” the news pulls up the conversation of the leaders of firefighters’ organizations. Ill-informed means “lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information as in one particular subject or in a variety of subject.” Which means that the firefighter organizations state that the president was not aware of the situation. To explain the situation in California, the news adds a piece on information in the middle of the passage saying “The Camp Fire in Northern California has killed 23 people and burned 108,000 acres. The Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles has killed at least two and has scorched 83,275 acres. The Hill Fire in Ventura County has ravages 4,531 acres.” As the article pulls up Trump’s tweet “… Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” in the beginning of the page, it refer to the message delivered by the president of the California Professional Firefighters, “The president’s message attacking California and threatening to withhold aid to the victims of the cataclysmic fire is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines.” Which shows the disappointment of action and anger of disrespect in the tweets sent by Trump.
In The New York Times, “Trump’s Misleading Claim About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’,” It claims that the information in the tweets is wrong by oversimplifying the cause of California’s wildfires. In the news article, it pulls out pieces of sentences in Trump’s tweets with a line “This is misleading.” Which is bold and uses a different font than the main article. Below this line, it analyzes Trump’s words and gives evidence to prove that Trump’s statements are wrong. The article quoted Trump’s tweet “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.“ The article argues “California’s current wildfires aren’t forest fires.” It quotes “These fires aren’t even in the forest,” said by a wildfire specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article also pulls up information from a 2015 report by the United States Department of Agriculture. “Between 2000 and 2010 (the last year for which data was available), the number of people moving into the wildland-urban interface had increased by 5 percent… The highest concentrations are in Florida, Texas and, yes, California.” By pointing out that “Of the state’s 33 million acres of forest, federal agencies, including the Forest Service and the Interior Department, own and manage 57percent. Forty percent are owned by families, Native American tribes or companies, including industrial timber companies; just three percent of the forest is owned and managed by states and local agencies.” It shows that blaming the forest management of California and threatening to withhold federal payments from the state is unwise and unhelpful to the situation in California.
The CNN news reports “President Trump’s tweet on California wildfires angers firefighters, celebrities.” It is mainly about summery of comments by the presidents of the International Association of Fire Fighter, the president of the California Professional Firefighters, and some celebrities responding to the three tweets tweeted by Trump. With the subtitle “Official: Tweet is ‘ill-informed’,” the news pulls up the conversation of the leaders of firefighters’ organizations. Ill-informed means “lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information as in one particular subject or in a variety of subject.” Which means that the firefighter organizations state that the president was not aware of the situation. To explain the situation in California, the news adds a piece on information in the middle of the passage saying “The Camp Fire in Northern California has killed 23 people and burned 108,000 acres. The Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles has killed at least two and has scorched 83,275 acres. The Hill Fire in Ventura County has ravages 4,531 acres.” As the article pulls up Trump’s tweet “… Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” in the beginning of the page, it refer to the message delivered by the president of the California Professional Firefighters, “The president’s message attacking California and threatening to withhold aid to the victims of the cataclysmic fire is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines.” Which shows the disappointment of action and anger of disrespect in the tweets sent by Trump.
In The New York Times, “Trump’s Misleading Claim About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’,” It claims that the information in the tweets is wrong by oversimplifying the cause of California’s wildfires. In the news article, it pulls out pieces of sentences in Trump’s tweets with a line “This is misleading.” Which is bold and uses a different font than the main article. Below this line, it analyzes Trump’s words and gives evidence to prove that Trump’s statements are wrong. The article quoted Trump’s tweet “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.“ The article argues “California’s current wildfires aren’t forest fires.” It quotes “These fires aren’t even in the forest,” said by a wildfire specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article also pulls up information from a 2015 report by the United States Department of Agriculture. “Between 2000 and 2010 (the last year for which data was available), the number of people moving into the wildland-urban interface had increased by 5 percent… The highest concentrations are in Florida, Texas and, yes, California.” By pointing out that “Of the state’s 33 million acres of forest, federal agencies, including the Forest Service and the Interior Department, own and manage 57percent. Forty percent are owned by families, Native American tribes or companies, including industrial timber companies; just three percent of the forest is owned and managed by states and local agencies.” It shows that blaming the forest management of California and threatening to withhold federal payments from the state is unwise and unhelpful to the situation in California.
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