Blog post #6

Title: Iran probes 'deliberate' poisoning of schoolgirls across the country.

Source: Aina J. Khan 

URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-poisoning-schoolgirls-deliberate-islamic-republic-rcna72610?fbclid=IwAR35HOoZf2BhmbO5wkouo_apxUUglVtqwumbI8yW2QYlIoKOMUiaoUMm9V4

My critical questions:

As I was reading through the news article again. The headline and the article have shown me how Iranian women are treated differently and aren't equal to men, to the point where there are people who don't want females to access education and female students have to protest for their rights. After I finished reading this news article, another question came to mind: "Is there any important information that got left out? How would you find what is missing?" These questions made me realize that the author only writes about how schoolgirls across the country were affected by the poison and about the protest for women's rights in Iran. However, are there really only schoolgirls who got affected? How about the boy students? Later, I searched for more sources from other news websites, such as "Le Monde," and found that they also included boy students that got affected by the poison too. This proves to me that the author might have some slight bias toward men in Iran. So my next question is, "What is the key point of the news?" In my opinion, maybe the author wants to be the voice for Iranian women and wrote this article to make the reader aware of how badly women were treated in Iran but left out some information to make it seem more exaggerated so people who read it would want to side with Iranian women protesting. Lastly, "What kind of images were used in the article?" There are two images that are used in this article. The first picture shows a woman who has turned her back and raised her hand, making it clear that she is protesting, and the second picture is a picture of Iranian schoolgirls. Both of these pictures focus on women, which makes me believe that my opinion is correct.