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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