Week 11 H4D Engels

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's plan 

1 SO results 

News Project

2 News Project (part 2)

 Emma 

1st hour: your laptop - notebook - pen 

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

SO Results: What can you take away? 

A) -oath = eed, gelofte ook goed gerekend 

- Make sure to focus on this exercise since you get the most points here. 

-14. solicitor = advocaat

-17.  prosecutor = officier van justitie / aanklager

B) 4. prosecutor's job = proving that someone is guilty.

solicitor's job = proving that someone is innocent. 

The word "innocence" is a........

1. adjective
2. noun
3. adverb
4. verb

The word "innocent" is a........

1. adjective
2. noun
3. adverb
4. verb

SO Results: What can you take away? 

B) 1. allegation, 2. innocence, 3. to sue, 4. guilt, 5. scent 

6. victim, 7. to convince, 8. adjective. 

C) Do not forget that you need to use 8 more words on top of the 2 words that are given. 

shower = regen NOT douche (keep the context of the list in mind!) 

News Project

What do you remember from previous News Project classes?

What to remember.......

• negative headlines 

1. Example: "10% of workers experience side effects covid"
2. Sells more & influences our way of thinking

•  Differences between Fox News & CNN:

1. Headlines: factual and playing on emotion
2. Republican vs. Democratic (Right Wing Vs. Left Wing)
3. 
   

Goals

1 At the end of this class, you will know how you can look for reliable news. 

2 At the end of this class, you will understand the terms fringe and mainstream media

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

News Literacy is:

In this course news literacy is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills in order to judge the reliability and credibility of information, whether it comes via print, television or the Internet. 

This is a particularly important skill in the Digital Age, as everyone struggles to deal with information overload and the difficulty in determining the authenticity of reports.

How do you find out whether your news is reliable or not?

Verification 

Independence

Accountability

(VIA)

VIA

Verification:

the act of verifying something 

(= proving or checking that it exists, or is true or correct):

Examples:

• https://www.facebook.com/pluginVNN/
  
• Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
  
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/fact-checker-president-trump-made-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-in-1226-days/ar-BB14RCpH
   

Independence:

not subject to control by others

  

Example: independent media is media that is not controlled by a government or other business . 

Independence
Can a news company really be independent, do you think?

In your own words: what's accountability?

https:

Accountability:

the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it

VIA

Who is responsible for your news?

1. mainstream media
2. fringe media
3. anonymous sources
4. all of them

Who is responsible for you news?

• mainstream media = well-established/well-known media like NOS, New York Times, BBC etc used by the masses. 
• fringe media = non-mainstream, less well-known and not as powerful or well-established. 
• anonymous sources = unknown sources  

What do you take away from this lesson?

News Project Part 2 

Goals

1 At the end of this class, you will know what the term "news gone wrong" is about. 

2 At the end of this class, you will have continued reading Emma / studying Follow Up / working on News Project PO 

*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).

Who is responsible for your news?

1. mainstream media
2. fringe media
3. anonymous sources
4. all of them

Who is responsible for you news?

• mainstream media = well-established/well-known media like NOS, New York Times, BBC etc used by the masses. 
• fringe media = non-mainstream, less well-known and not as powerful or well-established. 
• anonymous sources = unknown sources  

Do you agree with the quote "If you don't read the newspapers, you're uninformed. If you do read them, you're misinformed"? Explain your answer.

What is a good news report/article, do you think?

A good news report/article:

• Fairness and balance
• Accuracy
  
• Attribution
  
• Brevity
  
• Clarity.

Background material: https://www.easymedia.in/5-characteristics-good-news-report/ 

5 characteristics

Attribution = sourcing

- individual

- organisation

-  anonymous sources

- exceptions: commonly witnessed by many

Examples of news reporting gone wrong

Source: https://listverse.com/2015/02/17/10-glaring-examples-of-news-reporting-gone-wrong/

Main difference with fake news: unintentionally misinforming 

1.) United Airlines

In September 2008, a reporter for Miami-based Income Securities Advisors found a 2002 article about a financially moribund United Airlines filing for bankruptcy. However, the article itself was undated. As a result, the Google web crawler assigned it the date of the search, giving the impression that a half-dozen-year-old crisis was breaking news. The reporter then relayed the information to Bloomberg, a premier name in finance news, and as soon as the story went up, United Airlines’s stock price nosedived by 75 percent. Traders jettisoned 15 million shares, as the stunned company did its best to disabuse Bloomberg of the disastrous misconception.

2. A Poorly Translated Article Devalued The US Dollar

Guan Xiangdong, a tourism reporter for the China News Service, was tasked with filling in for her finance reporters that were on vacation in May 2005. Attempting to provide various perspectives on how an appreciation of China’s currency, the Renminbi, would affect the local economy, she pulled bits of from various media outlets to form her own collage of facts and opinions.

With lightning-quick reactivity, investors began dumping US dollars and buying everything from Renminbi to rupees in an avalanche of misinformed fervor. Within minutes, $2 billion had exchanged hands.

 

3.) Blindly Reporting A False Accusation Of Child Endangerment

Few crimes rival terrorism in emotional impact and reprehensibility, but wanton child neglect has a way of tapping into a public’s deepest wells of disdain. That’s why when news station KHOU accused Araceli Cisneros of leaving her two defenseless children to swelter in a car on a day measuring in at 32 degrees Celsius (90 °F) while she went to get a haircut, the public was irate. 

The stage for that rage was amplified when controversial show host Nancy Grace branded Cisneros unfit to raise a child, airing heartbreaking cell phone footage of people breaking the glass of the car door to rescue the trapped kids. That would all seem warranted were it not for the complicating detail that the story was an utter crock.

(1/2)

Cisneros was the victim of a dishonest witness looking to create a huge story at an innocent person’s expense. The mother didn’t abandon her offspring to bake like buns in an automotive oven to tend to cosmetic concerns. She’d actually accidentally locked her keys in the car and desperately begged for help. 

The people filmed rescuing her kids had arrived to the scene in response to Cisneros’s please for assistance. The news station would have discovered this reality had it not simply relayed the story without checking it for accuracy.

(2/2)

Extra: To fake or not to fake, that’s the question

What is fake news?

How do we recognise fake news?

What is a conspiracy theory?

How do we recognise a conspiracy theory?

SO & PTO 3/SE1 

• Deadline PO News Project: March 24th  

PTO 3: 

Continue reading/studying/working

• Continue reading Emma (CH 10-11-12)
• Homework Thursday: study lists 45-46 
• Homework Friday: study lists 47-48 
• Practice with the slides for The News Project test
• Continue with the News Project PO