A Consideration of Ethics in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart

by Joanna Johnson, M.A.

Resources

The following pages are links to various and worldwide news sources online, which students can use to compare the "newsworthiness" to that site's intended audience of any given story on a particular day. It's useful for the students to consider who the intended audience is, and hence what kinds of information are included or omitted in each case (see Extension Activities and Perspective above for exercises in class or at home).

http://english.aljazeera.net/English
The English webpage of the Arab media service Al Jazeera. Also worth looking at is the link to its "Code of Ethics" http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B3ABFB8-9082-4B05-B399-7BF68D4A39D6.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The most widely visited of all newspaper sites on the web.

http://nytimes.com/ and http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The two primary US news sources online

http://usatoday.com/
National newspaper site

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
The Times of London webpage

http://www.miamiherald.com/

http://www.nbc6.net/index.html
Local website of NBC television channel

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/
Independent Nigerian newspaper

http://www.world-newspapers.com/nigeria.html
A page of links to various Nigerian news websites