9th September 2021

In today’s class, we were told about bias news and how elections are conducted. As soon as the lesson started, we seacrhed up news on fox and the guardian. We searched up two article with titles of "Anti-logging protest becomes Canada's biggest ever act of civil disobedience" and "Dem Senate candidate hit with 4 felony charges for allegedly stealing $21,000 from campaign, lying about it". While reading through these articles,  I was able to distinguish the biased article and the non-biased one. As a personal opinion, I thought that it is a natural thing for newspaper or news companies to add in their personal thoughts or impresions in the article. However, changing the main content of the article would lead in readers to get the wrong idea and act based on the false facts. 

After reading the article, we learned the different types of methods to decide the elections in different countries. One of them were the “Run off electors” mainly used in the African countries. Disqualifying the candidates with low vote rates and  narrowing the choices allowing the candidates to be chosen in 2~4 days. Another was the FPTP method. Deciding the amount of power the party can obtain by the vote rates. Based on this method, there were ideas that this way of deciding the election was unfair. The reason was because the people who hadn't voted would not be counted as the vote. This meant that the candidates would obtain much more power than the results of the vote.

In Mr.Paterson's class, I would continuously want to learn more about the differences between the foreign countries and the issues going around in the world.