Option #1:
Knowing that the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un took place earlier this year, independently conduct some follow-up research to see what has transpired from this event. How have the relations between the United States and North Korea changed (or remained the same)? Have any of the issues presented during the meeting been resolved? Essentially, did the summit lead to any noticeable outcomes? Write your findings in a well-constructed paragraph. Then, reread the three articles provided in this lesson, and decide which news company wrote the most accurate account of the initial meeting between the two world leaders. Focus your attention on the way each news outlet framed their reporting and the impact they predicted this event would have on the two nations involved. Write another paragraph to describe your thoughts on the matter. Consider other resources when analyzing the news outlets that you are presented with in this lesson. Go to the source corroboration websites listed at the bottom of this page to review what experts have to say about the news outlets used for this lesson. Option #2: Independently research a topic relating to another U.S. president’s term, such as Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Nixon’s Watergate, and the Carter’s Iranian Hostage Crisis. Find three articles written on the same day by different news organizations, and complete an Analytical Thinking Chart following the same directions that were given to you during today’s lesson. After analyzing the political biases held by the three news outlets you have chosen, write a well-constructed paragraph describing which was the most unreliable source to use when studying the event as a historian. Again, consider other resources when analyzing the news outlets that you are presented with in this lesson. Go to the websites listed at the bottom of this page to review what experts have to say about the news outlets used for this lesson. AllSides is a news website that presents multiple sources side by side in order to provide the full scope of news reporting. The Allsides Bias Ratings page allows you to filter a list of news sources by bias (left, center, right). See the pics to the right of the news sources that we used for this lesson to get a look at how they lean according to AllSides: right (Fox News), center (BBC News), and left (The New York Times). Pew Research Center - Political Polarization Survey data reveals the news source favored by people according to their political beliefs. A report based on a 2014 survey shows which news sources are used and considered trustworthy based on individual's political values (liberal or conservative). Note that this report measures the political leanings of the audience rather than the source itself. Look at the chart to the right published by Pew Research Center in 2014 about how each of the major world news outlets lean according to bias. Blue Feed, Red Feed An interactive tool from the Wall Street Journal that allows you to "See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side" |
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