3 articles

Article 1:
Title: How does reality tv affect young girls?
By: Jessica Cain- a multimedia journalist
From: cnycentral.com
URL: cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=725143#.T-nggBdSQsc
Posted on February 29, 2012 @ 11:47am
Date accessed: June 26, 2012


Article 2:
Title: Reality TV: A Positive Influence for girls?
By: Benjamin Radford
From: Discovery News
URL: news.discovery.com/human/girl-scout-poll-reality-tv-111202.html
Posted on: Friday, December 2, 2011 at 9:13am
Date accessed: June 26, 2012

Article 3
Title: What Reality TV teaches Young Girls
By: Meredith Melnick
From: TIME Healthland
URL: healthland.time.com/201110/18/what-reality-tv-teaches-young-girls/
Posted on: October 18, 2011
Date accessed: June 26, 2012

Source 1:
Summary: The article is about a recent study that the Girl Scout Organization released about the effects of reality TV on young girls. The article shows percents on what teenage girls or their parents believe is happening in the mind of a teenage girl while watching shows like Jersey Shore. This is a web based source.

Assess: The source is useful for the statistics that it gives on what what teenage girls believe is happening. It also shows  how they feel about their self esteem or what their goals and achievements are in life. The source is objective because it is all statistics and not as much opinion.

Reflect: I might use this article because it has informing statistics on what girls think about reality TV. The source was helpful in showing me how girls react to reality TV and how it effects their lives.


Source 2:
Summary: The article is also about the recent study on how reality TV affects teenage and young girls. The article shows statistics and contrasts reality TV and other shows that should bring girl's self esteem up. This is a web based article.


Assess: The source is useful however it is very similar to the article above. It has just about the same statistics even though it contrasts reality TV and educational shows. The information is reliable because it gives good sources and quotes people.


Reflect: I do not believe I will use this article because the information is repeated from my other sources.

Source 3:
Summary: The last article talks about how girls view self-image when it comes to reality TV. It also says how some girls feel that reality TV can be viewed as a learning tool and that it is all not "reality". This was also a web source.

Assess: The article could be useful because it shows statistics and how girls view reality TV. The source is objective and not biased because it talks about how most girls view reality TV and not a small percentage. The information is reliable because it is from TIME magazine.

Reflect: I may use this article to show statistics and also how girls view self-image. I also might use this article to give examples of popular reality TV.