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This is another news article written by Allison Flood from the Guardian. The title of this news article is ‘9/11 children’s colouring books angers US Muslims’. It’s a very good title since it can hook the audience and keep them reading this article. Since, according to the public, colouring books for children are very innocent thing, how it could angers US Muslims? This is exact the reason for why I decide to keep reading.
The news article itself is not such grabbing as news articles about disaster, war, crime, etc. However, I think this news article is also very interesting because of the conflicted factor in it. Firstly the two subjects in this article is children’s colouring book, and the other is US Muslims who feel ‘disgusting’ about this book because of the misleading and maybe discrimination content in it. Secondly, Allison Flood presents two conflicted view toward the content of this book. This is a balanced structure which could show unbiased opinion and also because of the two conflict view toward a single issue, the audience would feel interesting. After exam the factors of this article I consider this news article as a human interest article.
Allison Flood is very skilful at writing good news article about books and new media publishing. If she’s just describing the content of these books and try to promote these books to the audience then her news article would be very boring. However, in her news article she relates a certain book to a recent news topic and then brings a totally new angle to the audience. So each time I read her news article I feel totally obsessed about the new idea she brings to us and also feel that I have the interest to read the books she described in her article.
