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"An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioningof a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight.”
Thomas Jefferson
News coverage comes from a point of view and has a bias.Students can begin to identify bias by asking:• Who produces the news?• Where do they get their information?• What is included, what is left out, and how is it prioritized?• How are images used?• How is language used?• How are facts used?• How do different news sources present the same news?
Niko Price
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD
Dan Higgins and Kelli Grant
Journal Staff
ITHACA
By Lines:
“News Literacy” materials
produced by news organizations
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get the information they use
Video clip from:
Toxic Sludge is Good For You
The PR Industry Unspun
www.mediaed.org
in some markets more than 80% of local television news
comes from
Video News Releases
John Stauber, Toxic Sludge is Good for You:
The PR Industry Unspun
Media Education Foundation
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
Which will get more coverage?
a) Senate Passes New Bill
Overhauling Social Security
Which will get more coverage?
a) Senate Passes New Bill
Overhauling Social Security
b) Local Congressman Caught
Sucking Toes of Secretary
in Hotel Tryst
Which will get more coverage?
c) Bloody Shooting Spree in Paris, 6 killed
d) New President Elected in Peru
Which will get more coverage?
Which will get more coverage?
e) Math Scored Decline Nationally
f) Hotel Owners Propose Plan to
Help Homeless
e) Math Scored Decline Nationally
f) Lady Gaga announces Plan to Help Homeless
Which will get more coverage?
g) Tom Hanks Arrested for
Cocaine Possession
h) 32,000 Children Starve to
Death Each Day Worldwide
Which will get more coverage?
a) Senate Passes Bill Overhauling Social Security
b) Local Congressman Caught Sucking Toes of
Secretary in Hotel Tryst
c) Bloody Shooting Spree in Paris, 6 killed
d) New President Elected in Peru
e) Math Scored Decline Nationally
• Hotel Owners Propose Plan to Help Homeless
g) Tom Hanks Arrested for Cocaine Possession
h) 32,000 Children Starve to Death Each Day
Worldwide
Which one was happened yesterday?
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
• how images, words and facts are used
Feb. 22, 2008 online
print version
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
• how images, words and facts are used
Feb. 22, 2008
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
• how images, words and facts are used
Cornell’s Tuition
Cornell’s Ranking
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1999 Cornell’s Tuition
1999 Cornell’s Ranking
1965
1989
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Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
* how images, words and facts are used
* how different sources present the news
Newseum.org
Daily newspaperfront pages fromaround the world
Scan maps to preview
newspapers
Media Construction of the Middle East
Unit 3, lesson 6
“Celebration” or “Protest”comparing TV news
Weekly News Quiz - can include questions about the bias of articles
Different Approaches for assessing Student Knowledge and Analysis
Different Approaches for assessing Student Knowledge and Analysis
Student Research Projects
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
* how images, words and facts are used
• the underlying values and messages communicated by a particular media source
Newsweek’s view of the worldA quantitative sociological study done by Claire Stoscheck
10th grade student at the Alternative Community School in Ithaca
Claire studied how five regions of the world;
Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America,
and the Middle East, were portrayed in Newsweek from 1992 - 1998
Key Question: How does the news present different regions of the world?
Quantitative: based on collecting countable data
Reliable: different researchers would get the same results
Valid: the data logically shows what the study claims it shows
Which Region do you think was represented the most from 1992-1998?
Africa ____
Asia ____
Europe ____ WHY?
Latin America ____
the Middle East ____
592592 imagesImages total Images Total
73 images
53 images
234 images
156 images
76 images
Why do you think there were four times
more images of Europe than of Africa?
When you think of
Europewhat images
come to mind?
Europe
Where did you get your
images of
Latin America?
Latin America
When you think of
Africawhat
images come to mind?
Africa
Africa
When you think of
the Middle East what images come to mind?
Middle East
Asia
How do these images influence our view of the
world?
Lesson 4: Introducing
Content Analysis
Lesson 5:Student Media
Research Projecton Sustainability
Media Construction
of Sustainability
Students can begin to identify bias by examining:
* who produces the news
* where the producers get information
* what is included, what is left out, how is it prioritized
* how images, words and facts are used
* the values and messages communicated by a particular media source
* the educational, political, and commercial interests of news sources
The “Big Six” media companies www.mediachannel.org/ownership
Producing news teaches news analysis skills.
Students can learn critical analysis skills through the production of:
* a radio news program
* a school or classroom newspaper
* a video news program
* a news magazine
* a mock news article or advertisement
Examine the ways in which our own biases
influence our understanding of the news.
In March, 2003, 57% of Americans were under the
Saddam Hussein“helped the terrorists in theSeptember 11 attacks.”Pew Research Center
impression that
Scripts Howard pollAugust, 2006
36% of Americans suspect that the
government assisted in the 9/11 attacks or
took no action “because they wanted the United States to
go to war in the Middle East”
"An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioningof a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight.”
Thomas Jefferson
