Certificate of Originality

The purpose of this essay is to look at a local story about something going on in my area, and tell several facts about the article. I will look at whether or not the story was accurate, clear, sufficient, and whether or not it contained depth or breadth. I will see whether or not some of the facts were reported and other facts were ignored, and if the story considered alternative perspectives and world views. If there were any questionable assumptions within the story, or if any of the implications were ignored or others emphasized.(incomplete sentence) I will also talk about why it is important to make distinctions when doing a critical evaluation.

In my opinion, the reporting of the news in this article was not clear or accurate, and it was insufficient as far as depth and breadth. It didn't give two sides of the story because ex-sheriff John L. Turner pled guilty, but stated he was innocent so why did he plead guilty in the first place? There was no statement from him in the article whatsoever giving his side of the story. Some of the facts were obviously reported while others were left out. A questionable assumption Supt. Arch Turner and his attorney would like for you to believe would be that Sheriff Turnerhe wasn't the one behind all of it. According to everyone who has already taken the plea bargains so far, nine of the ten who have pled guilty and all are behind bars including Supt. Turner. This is because his bond was revoked, since one of his restrictions was he was to have no contact with John L. Turner and tried to contact him while out on bond and was arrested. Sheriff Turner'sHis bond was revoked & now he will spend the rest of his time in jail until he goes to trial.

In conclusion, I feel like this article left a lot of questions unanswered. It didn't give any of the defendant's sides of the stories ~ only the FBI's side of things. They never once considered the influence money has on poor people of Eastern Kentucky which is extremelyreally, really sad.

I know a few of these people that went to prison, and I know what kind of homes they came from. and I also know what kind of person Arch Turner is and how he has manipulated his political pull and used money to get what he wanted for years. I guess Yyou could say I had the inside scoop on this, and so I know for a fact there were a couple of people used in this sting operation to set him up that should have been set free andwhich were notn't. Yes, they did wrong, and I'm a firm believer in the law. I and if you commitdo the crime, you should do the time. I just feel like where there are's children kids involved, sometimes parents will go to extremes when they a're unemployed, uneducated, and have hungry mouths to feed at home. When these parents need to put food on the table, and if the right amount of money is waved in front of them,they will commit a crim. This is over and over and it's