Newspaper+Links

=INAUGURATION 2009= The above link contains some interesting information about some of the events and people who have been invited to be part of the ceremonies and celebrations.

====The world is an interesting place because of our differences. While the Obama inauguration is most definitely big news here in the States, how are other countries "spinning" the beginning of the Obama administration? Are the different areas of our own country all focusing on the same parts of his speech and programs, or does it seem that some areas are more concerned with certain issues?==== ====This page provides a variety of links to papers around our country as well as around the world. Choose one national paper and one international paper to focus on. Predict what you think the focus might be or if there would be a bias. Read the articles and compare and contrast how they treat the story. For example, is the Obama inauguration a headline in any of the foreign countries? How are the various headlines worded? What are the subtitles of the various articles? Did anything surpise you about the variety of ways the story is treated?==== = =

United States
[|//The Washington Post//] - Interesting side note is that, since it is local, this has all kinds of **//inaugural central//** kind of news. As I scrolled down the [|//Inauguration Central//] page, I noticed that there is some historical information about the inauguration and first families available there as well.

[|//USA Today//] - They focus primarily on national and international aspects of the news.

Our Chicago local papers will no doubt have an interesting spin about our very own Barack Obama: [|//Chicago Tribune//] //[|The Chicago Sun-Times]// //The Boston Globe// [|//The St. Petersburg Times//] ( Florida) [|//The Seattle Times//] [|//The Arizona Republic//] [|//The Detroit Free Press//]



Newspapers from around the world gathered by the class of 2008
[|The Standard]- from the Kenya Television Network. Why might this particular publication have a different " spin" the some of the others in regards to Obama? [|The Daily Nation]- Also from Kenya and part of a network of East African newspapers managed by National Media Group [|//The Jakarta Post//] - Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia. [|//The Times of India//] [|//Shanghai Daily//] [|//Granma International//]//-// This paper is from Cuba, not just a neighboring country, but also a communist one. [|The Sydney Morning Herald] - a viewp9oint from "Down Under" [|The Big Project UK - Worldwide News in English] - This is an unbelievable collection of papers, written in English, from around the world. There are links provided for these papers if you would like to read them in their native languages as well. You may want to consider looking at newspapers from [|countries at war or in turmoil] and see how they view, if they even mention, the election of Barack Obama and how they believe it will affect their country's situation.

Send me an email @ nancy.jones@shschicago.org if you find another you thinks is worth adding
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