Title: Survey Finds Broad Dissatisfaction with Disability Representation in Movies, TV

Main claim/premise: Hollywood needs to do a better job of portraying people with disabilities.

Overall assessment of its credibility w/ reasoning:

• Published by Disability Scoop

• The publication demonstrates expertise on the topic

• The author, Shaun Heasley is a founder of the publication w/ a degree relevant to journalism

• The study referred to in the article is cited

Overall assessment if it is relevant to your purposes:

• Yes, relates to Leduc’s points about the impact of representation/lack of representation

• “More than a quarter of those polled said that they consider nearly all of the disability representations they had seen in the previous year to be inauthentic.”

Is it a good text to use in an essay? Why/why not?:

• Yes, with some caveats

• This publication is a reliable source, particularly for the topic

• However, it is very brief, so it doesn’t provide a ton of substance.

• It may be helpful to refer to the study itself