I watched America's Newsroom on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013. The two news anchors are Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum. This type of news covers everything that's happening across the entire country of the United States. For the most part, FOX News allows people to view the facts and then make up an opinion of their own. However, Within the first 7-8 minutes, each news anchor had already uttered an opinionated remark.
News anchor Martha MacCallum was discussing the voting going on in the House and the Senate that dealt with the resolution that would avoid a government shutdown. The voting was said to be done yesterday. After MacCallum finished reporting on this topic, she said, "Yeah, we'll see where they get with that, right?". The words she said and the tone that she said them in implied that this was an opinion. However, I don't think that she said it in a way that people would believe that her opinion was a fact.
Next, MacCallum reported on the fact that the government was still hiring new people even in the state our economy is in. New positions are popping up that are paying over 100,000 dollars a year. These new positions will possibly cause Native American schools to close or just make their class sizes larger. After MacCallum finished talking about this subject, Hemmer said, "Government's still hiring. Even under the sequester. Government's still getting bigger. No white house tours though." It's more about the tone that he said this in than what he actually said.
However, I don't believe that these opinions inhibited my ability to separate fact from opinion. The topics that they reported on were mainly political or economical. I think that the news anchors were able to effectively report the topics and provide the nation with facts.
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