{"id":11645,"date":"2014-07-21T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=11645"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:08:02","slug":"war-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/war-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies: War Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE to Teachers:\u00a0 it is critically important that students get their news from MORE than one\u00a0source.
\nSo if your students are only receiving\/reading the ONE newspaper (or watching ONE newscast) that
\ncomes into your school, then they are terribly misinformed. With the web, there are some great sources of info.
\nI suggest the following:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0BBC Radio\/TV<\/a>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0Globalvision News Network<\/a>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0Alternet<\/a>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0Mediachannel
\n<\/a>–\u00a0\u00a0Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0newspaper
\n<\/a>–\u00a0\u00a0World News Sources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJim Axelrod Correspondent CBS News<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\nNBC TV Image from NY Times<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n<\/span>NBCs David Bloom, dies in Iraq 4\/6
\nImage courtesy TV Week<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
A Media Education Approach to Teaching\/Talking About The War
\npublished here courtesy and permission of Canadian media educator Chris WorsnopAt a time when our list is filled with posts about war and seems as if it might become a funnel for a single point of view, I want to offer an activity that teachers might be able to use as a media education activity while perhaps avoiding some of the posturing that endangers classroom discussion of sensitive issues. The objective in a media class should be to come to conclusions and insights about the media rather than to adopt certain positions or opinions, no matter how clearly correct people might consider these positions.<\/span>Start with a question such as:<\/p>\n

“How are the news channels doing?”<\/p>\n

Let the discussion flow freely for a little while.<\/p>\n

Then – if the class does not do this for you first – contextualize the question by taking a trip through the key concepts of media education :
\nWho is asking, and on whose behalf? (Audience)
\nWhich news channels are included in the question? (Audience\/ideology\/values\/politics)
\nWhich ones are excluded? (audience\/ideology\/values\/politics)
\nWhat is meant by “how are they doing”?
\nAre we asking about jolts for viewers? (Media are constructed)
\nAre we asking about reliability and journalistic objectivity? (Versions of reality)
\nAre we asking about how the channels make us feel? (Audience positioning\/politics)
\nAre we asking about audience share or ratings? (Commercial interests\/ownership)
\nAre we asking about congruence with a given set of assumptions about the war? (Values\/ideology)
\nAre we asking about style of presentation? (Audience, response, form and content, aesthetics)
\nHow are our answers and those of others affected by race\/ethnicity, gender, class, faith, nationality?
\nWhat other questions could\/should we be asking?
\nHow can we recognize a “right” answer?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n