Logic: The Art of Thinking |
Assignment
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News
Media |
FEATURES
AND DEVICES |
Find examples of news
coverage in newspapers, magazines, radio or tv that distorts, misleads,
misinforms or mismanages the news in the following ways: submit only
ten(10) selected from the list below. |
Submit
your collection by the date indicated in the course calendar. |
1.
Billing
| a. inaccurate or misleading headlines or titles |
| b. INTERPRETIVE picture captions |
2.
Completeness
| a. incomplete, inconsistent or puzzling account |
| b. technical and incomplete, filled with jargon |
3. Sources
| a. story from wire service, e.g. UPI, AP, REUTERS, FREE PRESS
etc.. |
| b. story from a press release, news conference or leak |
| c. uncritical use of an informed source, a leak or anonymous source |
4.
Background
| a. a background or general story |
| b. story or report without required background |
5. Balance
| a. a one sided account, report or story |
| b. slanted first paragraphs, item ends with a different story |
| c. selective selection of columnists, editorials, photographs,film
footage and comic strips |
6.
Connections
| a. story that affects you directly |
| b. story that is not followed up |
7.
Importance
| a. staged media event |
| b. playing a story up |
| c. playing a story down |
8.
Electronic gimmicks-tv or radio
| a. suggestive voice over |
| b. posed situation |
| c. use of props |
| d. story of interest because of available film |
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