The website chosen to be evaluated is the ENN Environmental News Network. This site was chosen to be evaluated, because it is a very informative website on different environmental events and issues happening around the world. This news site caught my attention because the topics, which were discussed within the articles, were found interesting to me. I also noticed that the ENN site had been around for a long time, which could mean that the publishers have put a lot of time and effort into keeping up the site for a long period of time
The sites sources are a range of people agencies, groups of institutions who publish articles daily on the environment where they are located. When choosing to publish an article to their site they carefully review the content ensuring it is quality informationThe environmental News Network publishes the information, which is posted on its site in order to “Inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.” They seek to publish stories that are critical to understanding the growing crisis of our planet. “ENN’s ultimate publishing goal is to inform, educate and inspire its audience on a daily basis, to seek and through trusted information initiate solutions to our global environmental problems and lend support to creating a sustainable, problem-free future for coming generations.”Independent facts and opinions are easily identifiable; the opinions are put into quotation marks so you can tell the difference between what is someone’s opinion on what is being discussed and what is stated as factual information. The articles on environmental issues do discuss different sides of the issue such as the article on Polar ice. The article discuses the view of how the ocean warming is causing the sea ice to melt the base of the ice shelves. Then shows a different view of the issues saying that it could also be the wind patterns, which are causing the sea ice expansion near the South Pole.In the articles, which were reviewed, the writers would refer to different outside sources to back up the information being presented by them. For example in the article “Oil Platform Effect on Fish” they refer to recent reports on the issue performed by the U.S Geological Survey. They performed these surveys to help assist the Bureau of Ocean Management in understanding what the consequences in using these oil platforms could have on the oceans environment. The information presented in the articles of this news site is all factual information the topics written about and published to the site have gone through an editing process to ensure their validity
One can tell exactly when the article had been updated; at the top of each article it gives the time and day when the article was published. The topics being discussed are recent issues happening today and also topics on issues, which have been occurring over time. The site sorts through thousands of articles sent to them to be published to their news site every day. They choose the most accurate articles and publish them within that same day.
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