Attribution
The story on President Bush and the children's insurance bill was the story I choose to focus specifically on attributions. This story has a number of sources, but not as many as I thought. A lot of the facts stated in the story aren't backed up as to who said, or where the facts were found because they are easily accessible facts, such as public records or knowledge that is easily understood after researching the story.
President Bush is the main source and receives several attributions in regards to thinks he said as well as direct quotes. He is sporadically mentioned throughout the entire duration of the story. I think this was good because it presented the story with great credibility. Everyone knows who the president is and everyone knows that what he says is mostly true and isn't made-up.
A governor was also attributed and cited as a quote as well. The governor was in opposition of Bush's statements and made the story more interesting to have it included.
The writer is effective in using all the sources he/she had and correctly attributed as well because they are very clearly to the reader. Well, for me anyways. There were also attributes to groups of lawmakers, and the democratic and republican parites (very general and broad).
*Note to GG: This entry did not meet Sunday midnight deadline due to technological problems either with my computer or the website, but I went in and added it anyways. Taken into consideration when analyzing my final grade for course.