News Comment #7
October 4, 2020
The article I chose for this week is “Mormon president calls on members to help end racism” written by Brady McCombs. In this article it discusses how the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ wants to end racism within the church. It also gave a background history of how the church was once against black people, it even had a ban on them until 1978 and still have not given a formal apology. They don’t like to talk about the history of the church, but they know want to show they accept black people.
This article relates to our class because of how it is written. It is a decent article, it states what it wants to discuss right away. There is a nice quote from the president, but towards the end things get a bit rocky. There is one sentence that mentions the conference was held without an audience and I feel like that was randomly thrown in. It was at the bottom because it isn’t as important, but it still feels so random. Another thing I noticed is that they capitalized the word black, even in a quote. I kind of like to know why because that is a weird thing to do. Over all, it did a decent job of following the inverted pyramid, but I feel like stuff towards the end wasn’t as necessary.
October 13th, 2020 at 12:45 pm
Interesting you should notice that, Ashley. The Associated Press changed its style book over the summer, mandating that Black now be capitalized when it refers to a person’s race. Other individual media had been doing that for years, so the AP was somewhat out of step.
I sort of agree about the audience comment.