Evaluating Media for Credibility
Jose Fill
University of Phoenix
Critical Thinking
CRT/205
Jill Rossi
August 12, 2012

Evaluating Media for Credibility
On August 12, 2012 I watched the CNN news broadcast for What’s next for Mars? Searching for Alien Life on Mars. (CNN [CNN], 2012, p. 1) CNN interviewed Author Lawrence Krauss about what the next steps will be for the rover Curiosity on mars. Lawrence Krauss discussed the different pictures taken from mars so far and the next logical step from here is to either discover past life on mars or even possibly life on mars now. Lawrence Krauss thinks we are cousins of mars and we could actually be Martians.
On August 11, 2012 Lex18.com aired the article NASA’s mega rover landed on mars. What’s next? ("Lex18.com," 2012, p. 1) This article only covered on paragraph on what’s next for mars. In that paragraph it states “that the Curiosity rover is on a quest to learn whether the Martian environment could have been favorable for microbial life”.("Lex18.com," 2012, para. 1) The rest of the article just goes on about how and when then Curiosity rover landed.
I feel that the CNN news video was more credible because it went into more detail on what the real next step mars will be. The other article wasn’t a video and really didn’t state anything special about the issue. I feel this news headliner was misleading and bare. Plus I couldn’t even find who wrote about it. CNN actually had a credible source, Author Lawrence Krauss. I found that CNN had a better story because it actually talked about what is next for mars and even stated some theories on whether we came from mars ourselves.

References
CNN (Producer). (2012, August 12, 2012). What’s next for Mars? Searching for Alien Life. [Television broadcast]. CNN World: CNN.
NASA’s mega rover landed on mars. What’s next? [Breaking News]. (2012, August 11, 2012). NASA’s mega rover landed on mars. What’s next? doi:http://www.lex18.com/news/nasa-s-mega-rover-landed-on-mars-what-s-next-/