Picture and news link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/murakami-norwegain-wood-banned-new-jersey
According to a recent news article of the Guardian, Haruki Miurakami's Norwegian Wood has been removed from the reading list of Williamstown High School in New Jersey. The reason for this is that many parents complain that the homosexual description in this book would have negative effects on their children.
The author of this news article, Allison Floods, introduced the situation and then extended the topic from a reading list issue to a discussion about proper education for teenagers. From my point of view this is a very good news article because of its idea about education, balanced points of view and also news value.
The author of this news article extends the single topic of reading list issue to a broad discussion about what is the appropriate education for teenagers. To me this is a very smart idea since in this way, the author can represents a fact to the audience and at the same time leads the public to discuss deeper about a certain social issue. The news article then, linked three topics (reading, homosexuality and education) together and made a meaningful discussion.
In this news article the author adopted a balanced structure. She represents different ideas toward the issue. For example, some parents hold the opinion that Norwegian Wood should be removed from reading list because of its homosexual description; While some educators think that student should exposed to challenge and diverse reading so that they can understand how to make their own judgement and learn to respect other people’s opinion; Opinions about homosexual discrimination are also represents in this article. This kind of balanced structure is very good for news article since it shows conflicts and also written in an unbiased way.
Lastly, this news article has good news value because of the prominence of Norwegian Wood and also its relevance with people’s life (homosexual people’s right and education).
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