News is more than just facts and information; it is information that affects us. News affects how we live our lives, how we perform our jobs, how we function as students, and how we make decisions. We decide whether or not to carry an umbrella or cancel a picnic based on weather reports. We look to the media for sports scores, stock market reports and details about entertainment events. Information we have learned from news broadcasts may affect our choice of a college or a major field of study. More importantly, we learn about candidates for public office, election results and the winner's effectiveness through media reports. Announcements about new industry and new jobs or, conversely, about plant closings and layoffs come to us through the media.
Assignment:
You will create a 5-7 minute news analysis on a recent and/or current event/issue that is relevant and connected to our current unit of study and/or liberal democracy. In your news analysis you must:
Format:
Example topics include but are not limited to:
You will create a 5-7 minute news analysis on a recent and/or current event/issue that is relevant and connected to our current unit of study and/or liberal democracy. In your news analysis you must:
- Provide background information about the current event/issue. [possible causes?]
- Show the differing perspectives and views of the current event/issue and recognize possible bias of the perspectives.
- Show that you have conducted additional research and use political analysis tools to help inform and build knowledge and understanding of the topic?
- What is the link to liberal or illiberal democracy?
- What is your opinion/perspective on the topic?
Format:
- In-class presentation 5-7 minutes in length
- Must include visuals
- Must include a Works Cited page in MLA format
Example topics include but are not limited to:
- Trump tariffs make world 'poorer and more dangerous'
- Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik wins Bosnia presidency seat
- Climate report: Scientists politely urge 'act now, idiots'
- Brazil election: Voters debate the merits of democracy as far-right candidate leads polls
- Romania marriage poll: One man, one woman definition up for vote
- Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege
- Donald Tusk calls Jeremy Hunt's Soviet jibe unwise and insulting
- Is March For Our Lives the new civil rights movement?
- Danish policewoman investigated for hugging niqab-wearing protester
- The Rwandan school turning boys into feminists
- The manufacturers fighting Trump's tariffs
- China Uighurs: Xinjiang legalises 'reeducation' camps
- Not pounds and pence - here's a different way to measure our wealth
- 'Flexitarian' diets key to feeding people in a warming world
- Donald Trump and a world of disorder
- Israeli Supreme Court allows US 'boycott' student to stay
- Jessikka Aro: Finn jailed over pro-Russia hate campaign against journalist
- Viktoria Marinova: Suspect in journalist murder extradited
- Jamal Khashoggi disappearance: US asks Turkey for recording evidence
- Afghanistan election: Voters defy violence to cast ballots
- Hesse election: Merkel facing double trouble in German vote
- INF treaty: Putin shrugs off Trump’s nuclear arms move
- Falling stars challenge: China's twist on the young rich millennial meme
- On America's trail of destruction
- China’s Hidden Camps (on the Uighurs of China)
- “Misery ‘Every day, every hour’ in Syrian refugee camp
- The ordinary people making the world more right wing
- US mid-terms: Will it be a good night for Democrats?
- Otwock największym miastem na Mazowszu, w którym po wyborach rządzi PiS
- Jim Acosta row: Donald Trump threat over reporters' behaviour
- Khmer Rouge surviving leaders guilty of genocide, tribunal finds
- Hong Kong refuses entry to FT journalist Victor Mallet
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