CRITIQUE/Caleb Waldron 1
GUANTANAMO ARTICLE FAILS TO CONTEXTUALIZE
By Caleb Waldron
The following is a critique of the "New York Times" article " New Detainee Rights Weighed in Plans to Close Guantanamo," accessible through the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/us/nationalspecial3/04gitmo.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
This piece does an excellent job of relaying the immediate information surrounding the legal conflicts of Guantanamo detainees prisoners. The lede accurately portrays the issue in general, and each of the following paragraphs offers information with a progressively narrowed focus. And while the reader’s presented with a very focused topic, the information is presented in such a way that the reader isn’t overwhelmed. Unfortunately, the piece doesn’t offer a sense of context as to what motivations are behind the issue of Guantanamo detainees. While the reader knows that the U.S. government faces legal troubles for its actions, the reader isn’t told why Guantanamo Bay is considered controversial. While this information is relatively well-known, the reader is still disconnected from the motivations behind the central conflict of this piece, and therefore disconnected from the importance of the affair.
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