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Article Evaluation: Political Communication


 * The article does a good job of explaining what the main ideas of Political communication is and how it has evolved over the years. Nothing seems to be out of place when it comes to context, the article stay on topic for most of the page.
 * When the article is explaining some of the examples regarding Political communication, they mostly come from the Bush-Kerry election time period whereas many different ways of communication have evolved since then. One updated example could be the use of Twitter and other social medias during the 2016 Election.
 * Another way that the article can be expanded could be the inclusion of data from many social media sources and the effects they had. Another could be the difference in certain medias over the years and how they have changed. For example, the amount of people who looked to their local newspaper for political news could've dropped drastically.
 * The only sign of possible bias in this article could be the large scale diagnosis of the Bush Era torture methods. It is possible the author could be pushing their own agenda that may be one-sided. There could be less depth on this topic.
 * The links and references all seem to work well.

Article Selection:

1.) Political Communication


 * It seems like most of the statistics listed are from 2013 at the latest. More information and stats can be provided for examples and research. The article also seems to be lacking more uses of new age methods of communication in the political world, this could benefit from some updating.

2.) News Leak


 * Most of the information provided is pre-2016 and some statements seem to be lacking credible sources. There are few examples and explanations on this page and it really could benefit from so up-to-date additions. Under the "Reasons" section, there could be a lot more added or at least expanded upon.

3.) Political Forecasting


 * It seems like the last updated information was much earlier than the 2016 election which gave us many new studies on the idea of Political Forecasting. Many new sections can be made that explain what some of the processes are for prediction the outcome of an election. Few sources are listed, this could benefit from updating and a few new studies regarding recent elections vs the predictions.

4.) Political Alienation


 * The article seems to only be describing what the idea of Political Alienation is and offers no real evidence or example of what this is. The article could benefit from new examples and more explanation of the many ways of political alienation. More sources could also be added.