Today I learned that The New York Times uses media to add emotion to their writing pieces. As my group and I discussed our different news stories, we concluded that we were drawn to the article because of the pictures and videos within the text. We also decided that the pictures provoked a variety of emotions. For example, at the top my article there was a picture of a young deceased child that had be swept onto shore by the ocean waves. This initial visual made me feel upset and horrified as to how something so tragic had happened. Had I not seen this picture, the topic of immigration wouldn’t be something I was interested in reading about. On the contrary to my feelings, one of my group members found the picture to be disgusting and unnecessary. She expressed her extreme dislike for the inclusion of the picture even to the point that she wouldn’t have wanted to read what the reporter had to say about the incident. That one picture changed the perspective of the entire article for each of us in a different way. In the past, I had not payed much attention to the effects of the visual media when reading an article. Overall, I realized that The New York Times uses visual media to attract and provide additional emotion to the reader.