Raihan's DP Blog

Original Article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media What I’m discussing is literally hell on earth. A length of 5,000km of Indonesia is facing the ultimate punishment of God, buried under the deepest levels of blazing flames, except humans a re the one imposing this punishment as if we have the power that can be compared to that of God. And it shouldn't require a columnist, writing in the middle of a newspaper, to say so. It should always be a part of everyone’s daily prayers, constantly asking forgiveness to Almighty God for what we have done to His creations. The scale of this sin is hard to convey, but here’s a comparison. In the Ten Commandments of the Holy Bible and the Torah, God commanded “Thou shall not kill” which prohibits human kind for unlawful killing. In the Holy Quran, God stated “Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind ent...

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? The text “For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage” is a feature article that depicts the concern of the lives of children raised out of wedlock. Feature articles provide information which are not necessarily newsworthy but it reflects events and values within a particular time period that are targeted towards the general public. It has been mediated by its journalists and editors through the prioritization of information that they believe would be the most useful and relevant to its readers, thus, may offer a sense of bias. This article in particular suggests the normality and the frequency of births occurring outside of marriage in today’s modern world. Although it aims to inform objectively, the author still manages to be influenced by several instances of biases in their writing, representing the social groups such as women and couples in a particular way in the text.  How and why is a social...