Uninteresting Research

An article I found on DonaldsonvilleChief.com discussed research data on religion in the media. I feel that the article, �Religion News: Media coverage on religion doubled in 2010,� did a poor job at presenting the information. Rather than giving background information or explaining the numbers more in-depth, the author just wrote percentage after percentage. For a reader, this would get exhausting. It was a struggle for me to even finish the article and it wasn�t even that long. The article did compare the amount of religion-related articles from this 2010 to 2009, 2008, and 2007. It then went more in-depth to explain how this is the first year religion coverage surpassed science and technology and education. However, it did speculate as to why religion may have received more coverage. Instead, it discussed which religion stories received the most coverage this year. I think this author did a poor job at presenting this information because it made the topic dull and boring. Rather than keeping the reader interested in the topic, it pushed me away with the amount of numbers and percentages it threw at me.

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