After reading "Gay pride parade a diverse display" written by Jeff McDonald, it was not too clear to me if his article was in fact fair. At first I thought the article could be fair because it included information about four different parties of the parade. McDonald talked about the gays who participated in the parade, citizens who were there just to watch and enjoy, police officials who were watching over the event, and also protesters who were against homosexuality. Including all those different parties seemed pretty fair to me.
Once i reread it and really tried breaking the story down, I started to realize some unfairness going on at the very begining, which I quickly passed through the first time I read it. In McDonald's second paragraph he talks about how most of the people who walked in the parade wore regular clothing like T-shirts, shorts, jeans and sun dresses, yet he seemed surprised to see that. He made it seem like if the gay people who walked in the parade were not supposed to dress like that. With something like that written in the newspaper, I am sure someone could of been offended.
The way the story was written, it did not seem like the writer was trying to be unfair, but it did so happen that his statement ended up being so.
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