Evaluation of General Sources

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NPR is a great and reliable source that I have depended on it as a source for many of my research projects. Although some consider it to be rather biased and too left sided, the scholars that are interviewed on the site are very practiced in their fields and all of the information provided is relevant and recent. The other source I used, on the other hand, is a more popular website, that uses language that is more the "vernacular of the people". The information given is  definitely more of a commentary on the situation, rather than the source for new and relevant details.

• The URL of the NPR site ends in a .org while the other site ends in .com, which officially means that it is a for profit website. A website that ends in .org is a not for profit organization. The information provided on and .org website is less biased than on a .com website because they do not get profit from promoting specific people or companies. However, information on both websites can be valuable if taken with a grain of salt.

• The author on the NPR site is Tom Huizenga, a well known author for NPR who has covered a variety of stories. His qualifications are off the charts. The author on theguardian is Louise Osborne, who writes on all the Germany related news for the site. She does not specialize in the arts like the other author which can make her less reliable than the other author.

• The article on the NPR site was last updated on July 7th, 2015 while the other article was updated May 11th, 2015, which implies that that article is already missing updates with relevant information. There aren't any links on either article that indicates that it has been updated recently anyway. 

• Each article wishes to inform about the controversy in picking the new conductor of the Berlin Philharmonia mid-last year and the choices that went into picking him. The NPR article, unfortunately, is an interview of one of the orchestra members who is biased towards one of candidates.

• The NPR article uses multiple videos and a few pictures to demonstrate the skills of the candidate it is supporting. Thegurdian, on the other hand, has only one graphic, which is of the entire orchestra, which implies it is unbiased towards the entire election.

• As I have stated earlier, the NPR article is quite a bit more biased than the other one. It is just an unfortunate circumstance as the article centers around an interview of one of the members of the orchestra.

• Theguardian does not provide any future links, but the NPR article provides a few related links at the bottom.