Students were studying the novel ?Trash by Andy Mulligan. One section in the novel includes extracts from fictional newspapers which comment on Senator Zapanta, the corrupt official who stole millions of dollars of aid money intended to improve the lives of poverty-stricken inhabitants of the city, such as the three main characters of the novel. There are four articles in this section of the novel and they vary greatly in tone and subjectivity. Students analysed the information, language and tone in each article and concluding to what extent they were biased or objective and why. They also took this as an opportunity to revise the structure of a newspaper article.