Evaluation of General Sources

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by Mark Herpel

A recent controversy in the economic sphere is about the creation of China's new internationally funded bank , the  Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank . The U.S opposed it's creation because it would challenge the World Bank in which America holds influence  over. The following articles from the NY Times and NPR shed light on the controversy.

• URL:  The URL  used by  NY Times  has  .com at the end because it's the most common used domain for commercial business such as a reputable newspaper. The URL for NPR ends in . org because NPR usually takes a more objective standpoint as a non profit organization and NY Times is open  to incite  intellectual debates  as well as inform.  Each one could be consider credible because they are known for having detailed information backed by credible sources.

• Author: The author of the NY Times article is David Dollar . The author is a senior fellow at the China Center of Brookings,  a  world renowned economic think tank. He was also the U.S Treasury Departments Economic and Financial Emissary for China from 2009 to 2013. The author for NPR , Jackie Northam , isn't as well versed in economics as David but she is a foreign correspondent for NPR as well as a  20 year veteran journalist . 

• Last Updated: NY Times was last updated in October of 2014 while NPR was written in 2015 but doesn't state when it was updated. the links on the NY page work and lead to more discussions about the subject as well as other related topics.  On NPR it has working links to Wall Street Journal , Reuters and other informative sites.

• Purpose:  The text of NPR is simply trying to inform the reader of the controversy while David Dollar is clearly stating his opinion on the subject and persuading the reader to consider that the Chinese Bank is a good for the economy.

• Graphics: The graphic on NPR is a picture of the signing ceremony of the new Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank , clarifying the informative stand NPR emphasizes with this image. Their isn't any pictures on NY Times  about the Bank .  Although  There is  a picture of David Dollar which emphasizes my earlier point of the article being a debate and opinion matter rather than just informative.

• Position on Subject: NY Times is an opinion based article on the side of The Chinese Bank while NPR is impersonal and unbiased in it's information.  No one profits from  NPR but if readers who had plenty of investments in China were to read David's article they could benefit from the information .

• Links:  The article on NY Times  doesn't offer an links to back up it's claims but the web page itself offers other discussions and debates on the topic matter  as well as other related news while NPR offers informative links to the Wall Street Journal ,  Reuters and The Center for Strategic and International Studies

NY Times

NPR