Blog post#6

 Title: US-Canada agree to turn back asylum seekers at border

Source: By Nadine Yousif & Madeline Halpert, BBC News, Ottawa and New York

Date: March 24, 2023

URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047438

My critical questions

After rereading this article, I have found myself have some questions to the article. Who is the author? Well, there aer two authors doing this article. One is Nadine Yousif, a journalist from Canada and US BBC.
Her passions include social equity, human-interest reporting and data journalism.  constantly impressed by the power of words and visuals to open minds and hearts, and to ultimately affect change. And the another author is Madaline Halpert a journalist from North America news for the BBC. She covers a wild rage topics include elections, politics, government, business and health.

Since the article has two authors, I think it is really good in for reader to be sure that the article may not include any biases from one perspective. Therefore, it leads to my next question, what is the author's perspective? Is it neutral or biased? I think the two authors do not show us any obvious biases against any sides of the story. However, I feel that the article could provide more information regarding to asylum seekers' side. They do mention that Canada will create a new refugee programme for 15,000 migrants. However, they just talk about the US and Canada plans more than any other things. Next question, what kind of images or languages were used in the article? Do they show any biases? In terms of image, there are two images were used in the article. One is the picture of the US president and the Canada prime minister speaking on podium together in Canada. Which I think it does not show much bias against any one. And the other picture is a picture of a family of asylum seekers with their stuff and carriage standing infront of a canadian police officer. I think this picture somehow shows a little bias. Since the imager was used to show that the asylum seekers now can be rejected and sent back if they do unofficial crossing. For the language, the article was written in a formal and neutral way for me, I feel no bias against anyone after rereading it. However, since the article was written after new US and Canada deal has taken effect. It may seem to be a little bit biased against asylum seekers.