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Questions for Document 1

1. What details or facts did the paper choose to emphasize in the headlines and bylines? Why do you think this was so? What general tone is conveyed?

2. Circle the following information: date, price, and number of pages. Now look at a newspaper from your community and circle the same items. How are the two papers similar? How are they different?

3. When a major event happens today, what is usually our first source of news? What would have been the first source for news at the turn of the century?

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