Jim Axelrod Correspondent CBS News
NBC TV Image from NY Times
NBCs David Bloom, dies in Iraq 4/6
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for and about media coverage of war and other conflicts War Correspondents- A Book Bibliography (other book recommendations listed below) newest links in red |
NOTE to Teachers: it is critically important
that students get their news from MORE than one source.
So if your students are only receiving/reading the ONE newspaper (or watching
ONE newscast) that
comes into your school, then they are terribly misinformed. With the web, there
are some great sources of info.
I suggest the following:
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BBC Radio/TV
- Globalvision
News Network
- Alternet
- Mediachannel
- Christian Science
Monitor newspaper
- World News
Sources
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to Teaching/Talking About The War published here courtesy and permission of Canadian media educator Chris Worsnop At 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. Start with a question such as: "How are the news channels doing?" Let the discussion flow freely for a little while. 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 : Who is asking, and on whose behalf? (Audience) Which news channels are included in the question? (Audience/ideology/values/politics) Which ones are excluded? (audience/ideology/values/politics) What is meant by "how are they doing"? Are we asking about jolts for viewers? (Media are constructed) Are we asking about reliability and journalistic objectivity? (Versions of reality) Are we asking about how the channels make us feel? (Audience positioning/politics) Are we asking about audience share or ratings? (Commercial interests/ownership) Are we asking about congruence with a given set of assumptions about the war? (Values/ideology) Are we asking about style of presentation? (Audience, response, form and content, aesthetics) How are our answers and those of others affected by race/ethnicity, gender, class, faith, nationality? What other questions could/should we be asking? How can we recognize a "right" answer? |
Cable News Goes to War: Is Objectivity a Casualty (Harvard: video stream)
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Teacher Carrie McLaren offers
these
different versions of one news story for comparison and contrast.
Recommended Resources:
The
Censored War: American Visual Experience During World War II (1993)
George H. Roeder, Jr. Yale Univ. Press ISBN: 0-300-06291-5
Desert Storm and the Mass Media (1993). Edited by Bradley S Greenberg and
Walter Gantz.
Hampton Press. ISBN: 1-881303-35-7;
Media and the Gulf War: a case study (1991) Ontario Association for Media
Literacy. This 19-page booklet
encourages critical thinking and media literacy skills through an examination of
the Gulf War media coverage.
It includes chapters on mainstream and alternative media coverage, the
"manufacturing of consent" and the
representation of the war. Available from the Association for Media Literacy, 40
McArthur Street,
Weston, Ontario, Canada, M9P 3M7. Tel: (416) 394-6992; Fax: (416) 394-6991;
Email: loon@maple.net
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Links for Educators on Terrorism, News, and Media Literacy
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