The article:
By Dan Nowicki｜Azcentral.com
The questions:
What are the most important questions and who decides what they are and why they are important? What are the merits of an important question? How are the voters "disenchanted" with their leaders and where are the quotes to back this up? Who was polled in this Gallup poll? What was the percentage of minority groups? How does the Gallup poll reach the major voting public if they primarily call land-line phones? Who are the individuals that make up this "random sample?" How does this poll reflect public opinion rather than seek to change public opinion? How does Nowicki come to the conclusion that Arizona is not viewed as a good place for young people? Why does this article sound more like an editorial than a news story?
I think that azcentral.com probably ran this story in response to the Gallup poll itself. I also think Dan Nowicki wrote it as more of an editorial than a news story because the topic of questions facing Arizona is so broad. I think this could have been a simple news brief with less bias and less unanswered questions. The Center for the Future of Arizona's "The Arizona We Want" could also have been run higher in the story to give it more context. In that case, I would still have moved the article to the opinion section of the site.
This story raises more questions than it answers.
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