Here's your scenario... You are a news fiend and reporter for a top notch newspaper or popular news show. Your assignment is to search for a contemporary news article to critique so you can expose the different aspects and concepts of homeland security. Your article has to capture the Public's interest so it must include a variation of elements like timeliness, relevance, magnitude, impact, conflict, emotions, and the significance to homeland security. The broad goal of your news assignment is to identify a contemporary local, national, or global news event that helps to focus and emphasize DHS policies and the concepts.
Suggested sources: The Internet, newspaper articles, press releases, RSS feeds, Twitter, or other online sites that provide critical news blasts. The sources must be reliable. Assignment Locate a current, already published news article and critique it. Discuss the articles pros and cons and take a position to report how the different aspects of HS are affected. Point out the successes or failures of current HS policies in relationship to what you have learned about in this module. In your report, provide a brief background and the significance of the issue or event that your report is covering. You may need to point out the successes or failures of current DHS policies. Predict the long-term societal effects that your contemporary news event will have. Use any news available to you and use it as a reference source.