News coverage comes from a point of view and has a bias. Students can begin to identify bias by...

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

http://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



* 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


a) Senate Passes New 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

f) Hotel Owners Propose Plan to

Help Homeless


f) Lady Gaga announces Plan to Help Homeless


g) Tom Hanks Arrested for

Cocaine Possession

h) 32,000 Children Starve to

Death Each Day Worldwide


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


f) 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?





• how images, words and facts are used

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* 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

Student Research Projects






• 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

When you think of

the Middle East what images come to mind?

Middle East

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






* 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

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