News LiteracySection 5 with Jack Millrod

Week 2 Does where you get your news matter?

The Blackout: How it felt“Shortly into the experiment I discovered that without information I developed a certain emotional anxiety about being in the ‘dark.’ ” − Joe Gallagher

“With all the commotion in Israel, Ukraine, and even Missouri lately, the news blackout caused me to have the constant paranoid feeling that I’d miss something that could affect the rest of history: “Did we go to war with Russia?!” − Skyler Gilbert

− Omar Zainul

“Going through this blackout made me feel lonely and almost like I lost all connections to my friends … a very helpless feeling.”

The Blackout: Revelations“You never know how much media you are bombarded with until you shut it all out.” − Jake Acito

Being “without the news, or the media disconnects you from the rest of the world, and really it makes you realize just how big the world is, and I think that’s a beautiful and horrifying thought; because it makes you realize how small you are. The news truly makes the world a little smaller, and it connects entire nations …”

− Cary Lamb

“Before I did this news blackout, I never really felt that I absorbed that much information indirectly.”

− Nicollette Durchhalter

Where doesAmericaget itsnews?

Where News Lit students say they get their news

“Let’s break down Romanoff’s record and his many positions in detail so you can decide whether he deserves your vote.”

The same Pew Research Center study that showed public trust in the media continuing to decline did show one exception …

“Amid criticism, support for media’swatchdog role stands out.”-- Pew Research Center

“You guys are about to write a storythat says ... the highest ranking law

enforcement officer in the land is a crook.”− Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradley

in the movie “All The President’s Men”

What’s thedeal withjournalists?

“I’ll provide the war.”− Fictional newspaper publisher Charles Foster Kane

in Orson Welles’ movie “Citizen Kane”

“You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war.”

-- Apocryphal quote attributed to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in cable to illustrator Frederic Remington in

Cuba

But if journalists are really all about selling papers, getting TVratings andonline pageviews,how do weexplain . . .

“I’m not an adrenaline junky.”− Foreign correspondent Kimberly Dozier

“We have learned the lesson: To survive, we publish the minimum. We don’t

investigate. Even at that, most of what we know stays in the reporter’s notebook.”

− Alfredo Quijano, editor-in-chief of Mexico’s Norte de Ciudad Juárez

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• Go to refdesk.com, find and post an article on our Making Headlines discussion board and be ready for your first NEWS QUIZ.