Essential Questions – The Media
Essential Questions – The Media
|Essential Question |Option A |Option B |Option C |
|How is accurate news information important? |Identify the owners of 5 major |Evaluate the importance of the |Locate an article or story that was inaccurate. In |
| |media sources. Describe the |Telecommunications Act of 1996 and|what way was it inaccurate? Why? Identify the owner|
| |advantages and disadvantages of |the FCC. How have they positively |of the source that published it. Is there a |
| |those owners owning such a large |or negatively affected the news |correlation between the two? |
| |part of the media. |media? | |
|How do people’s methods of acquiring news |Discuss the strengths and |Identify people’s primary media |Watch the evening news on your local station and on|
|information affect their political behavior? |limitations of media influences on|source and party by polling 30 |a major news station. Take note of and time the |
| |people’s political behavior. |people to identify where they get |length of the head news stories. Then read the |
| | |the majority of their news and to |day’s Washington Post to compare the coverage given|
| | |find out their political party. |in the media sources. Draw conclusions about the |
| | |Evaluate whether there is a |adequacy of the national broadcasts vs. local |
| | |correlation between the two. |broadcasts vs. print media in conveying |
| | | |information. |
|How accurate are charges of media bias? |Describe the problems found in a |Watch the national and local news |Create a news story on a current issue. Write 2 |
| |biased news source. Identify bias |coverage. Are they biased? Towards|articles on it, one without bias and one with. |
| |in an article from the local |which side? Hypothesize the |Compare the two articles. How might they influence |
| |newspaper or the Washington Post. |reasons behind that bias. |American beliefs? |
| |What is the impact of that bias? |Depending on the source, which | |
| | |side is the media more likely to | |
| | |show? | |
|What contributions do the media make towards |Identify the media’s role in |Evaluate the media’s contributions|Create a newspaper front page based upon the layout|
|a democratic government? |political socialization. What and |to American self-confidence. What |of a major newspaper. Include major events, local |
| |how much impact is found? Where is|types of stories are shown to |happenings, etc., that accurately show American |
| |the biggest impact found? |support that self-confidence? On |life and concerns of the world around them. |
| | |the other hand, what stories | |
| | |undermine American confidence? | |
| | |Write an essay on why both types | |
| | |are shown, and the importance of | |
| | |doing so. | |
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