Question

check some headlines from journals such as the wall street journal, new york times,…. Summarize it in class. Categorize it as positive or normative

Answer 1

Positive statements are the factual statements presenting factual data of the economy . On the other hand, normative statements are based on value judgements and subjective opinions.

In case of New York Times, most of the statements are factual statements based on specific data and are not based on value judgements and all the statements based on factual data like current unemployment rate, GDP growth rate in the economy presented in New York Times are positive statements.