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Week 2 Newswriting

Philip Defranco is a YouTuber and news commentator whom I have been following for about three years now. When I started getting interested in politics his daily videos were a great source of political news for me. I chose Defranco because I rely on him a lot to understand exactly what's going on and how it happened. I follow him because he explains every topic very well and includes world news along with political news. When I took AP gov in high school I would read the news and try and understand exactly what political events took place and why they were happening and Defranco always helped me understand and comprehend better. I also like that he tries his best to be unbiased in his reporting. He is open about the fact that he will lean liberal, but always give his audience all the facts they need to have their own opinions. He could include more world news in his reporting. In high school, I would watch Philip Defranco videos with my friend Maggie and we would always add our own comments about what was going on in the world at that time. Not to mention he always includes a segment titled "today in awesome" in which he reports something good going on that day, which is a ray of sunshine through all the other stories. 

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  1. RePete thisFebruary 3, 2020 at 2:05 PM

    Thanks for the insight into someone so helpful for you. Breaking your work into paragraphs can help your readers follow along much more easily than a block of text does. I'm also not sure that starting a sentence with 'not to mention' makes much sense. It's not needed when you're introducing something else he is known for.

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