Ebola Argument Analysis

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Humans are surrounded by bias. Everywhere they look, there is an advertisement, trying to sell something, signs to get someone to vote for a particular person, or cause. Who should be responsible for digging out bias from news, advertisements, political campaigns, and even an every day conversation? People have different opinions on the subject, some may even include their own bias. Everyone has an opportunity check information for bias. In the 21st century, it should be everyone's duty to check information for reliability. Bias can cause problems. It can cause fear, and anger in people. Most of which is unnecessary, and quite possibly exaggerated. One of the most recent causes of concern would be the Ebola outbreak. Most news articles, …show more content…
"But questions have also been raised about whether there could be something different about this strain of Ebola that makes it more contagious than previous one" (Grady). This is really rather random in the article, and I believe it was put to add more alarming exaggerations into the article. The authors last major piece of bias was on the last page of the article. "...vaccine tests expected to start next month" (Grady). This vital piece of information is not given until the second to last paragraph. This is significant to bias in the article because many readers do not read all the way through an article. This is a piece of information that gives relief to the readers stress levels, something that I personally don't think that the author wanted to do. As I already shared one evaluation of a claim, the author made other claims. Another claim that she made was "[Ebola] could infect hundreds of thousands of people before it is brought under control" (Grady). This claim was found to be true. According to Lena Sun from The Washington Post "The virus could potentially infect 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone by the end of January..." This serves the purpose to back up Grady's …show more content…
"In fact, the U.S. Department of State announced Friday that it is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" (Wilson). "Ebola is widely seen as a death sentence" (Dionne). Both these statements suggest that the outbreak is going to end badly, but it could be helped by Heath organizations if what they were doing began to
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