{"id":11914,"date":"2014-09-25T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=11914"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:28:03","slug":"news-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/news-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"table11\" border=\"1\" width=\"97%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"132\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"rg_hi\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEUjFwZAOkfEHXhE4l_GT8KKTfCpyO7hv2A1WYn34uWRX5YbmV\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"272\" data-height=\"185\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"128\">\n<p align=\"center\">Resources for incorporating<br \/>\nnews\/journalism into instruction<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/tour6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"111\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"left\">QUOTES ABOUT THE NEWS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;being able to read, analyze, and interpret the news is part of being<br \/>\nan informed and responsible citizen in a democracy.&#8221;\u00a0 Regie Routman (2000, Conversations: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;..the future of the U.S. news industry is seriously threatened by the seemingly irrevocable move by young people away from traditional sources of news.&#8221; \u00a0(Carnegie Report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/reporter\/10\/news\/index.html\">Abandoning The News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Profit driven news organizations are under great pressure to boost ratings by sensationalizing the news: focusing attention on lurid, highly emotional stories, often featuring a bizarre cast of characters and a gripping plot but devoid of significance to most people&#8217;s lives&#8230;..[Major] news outlets have become more and more dependent on these kind of tabloid soap operas to keep profits high.&#8221;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=7&amp;issue_area_id=49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAIR Website<\/a>, quoted in At Issue: Media Bias)&#8221;The business of the news media is to draw attention. Period.&#8221; News organizations\u00a0sell this attention to advertisers&#8221; through &#8220;sensation (in news) and flattery of the\u00a0audience&#8221; in order to keep the attention from drifting away. &#8220;The business of getting\u00a0attention is where the revenue comes from,&#8221; (Todd Gitlin, media scholar\/critic\u00a0May 8, 2005 news report on speech to University of S. Florida, Tampa)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cable TV news is one of the big disappointments of the modern media age. You&#8217;ve\u00a0got 24 hours a day and you could be looking at problems affecting people and examining\u00a0a wide range of solutions. Instead you have these sensational stories that are drawn<br \/>\nout as soap operas.&#8221; (FAIR&#8217;s Jim Naureckas, quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/generalities\/cable_coverage_makes_faulty_landing_gear_seem_more_prevalent_than_it_really_is_29847.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news story<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources for incorporating news\/journalism into instruction QUOTES ABOUT THE NEWS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36724,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/36724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}