Media Critique

Media Critique Today the piece of media that is going to be critiqued is an article written by Megyn Kelly for Fox News discussing how Baltimore has reached a settlement of 6.4 million dollars for the family of Freddie Gray, because of his death after major arrest months ago. The way Kelly reported this single story will be criticized during this media critique. The full article can be seen here I realize that Kelly obviously met certain standards of the 10 elements and 7 yardsticks, as she is the journalist that she is, but there were also some things that she missed. First, a Room for Dissent was not shown. Kelly did not seem to speak her opinion much, which is usually necessary for an important piece of media. Also, she only criticized others very minorly, and more needed to be done about that. Second, the amount of information that was shown was a bit disorganized to where one could not be able to tell exactly what was being focused on. At some parts in the article it was easy to see what was being discussed, but later it became somewhat complicated. Of course the writing was newsworthy and relevant, but the civic contribution and minor enterprise seemed to be missing in some parts of it. One thing that was good was how a few sides of the argument were shown through Twitter accounts on social media. What could have been done to eliminate these things is through: 1. Speaking an opinion to show the audience and readers the point of view 2. Organize the text to where one can understand what is being said much more easily. Other than these things, there was nothing noticeably incorrect about what Megyn Kelly described and interviewed about. Knowing the type of journalist that she is, there should not be a wide amount of flaws and corrections to be made. Problems made in this could be fixed by making sure that all sources were official and that she spoke out to all audiences of different races. Overall, the article was satisfactory, and could use some minor improvements to make it better.