Media Literacy

1. ABC News, CBS News, PBS

2. The Week, Daily Beast, The Atlantic Vox

3. National Review, The Weekly Standard, Reason.com

4. Liberal: Palmer Report, Patribotics; Conservative: Info Wars, Conservative Tribune

5. Facts: Information that is true and have realistic supportive evidence

6. Opinion: Biased information that is formed from emotions or assumptions that can be both proved and disproved
7. Informed Opinion: Biased information that is formed from experience and knowledge but isn't  100% true

8. You could find facts from authorities or spectators who were present somewhere and know what exactly happened for an event, or you could find video events or accurate documents that contain facts.

9. Informed opinions could come from authorities who are knowledgable in a specific area relevant to your research such as a coach for a football team or the leader of a construction project.

10. You could easily be writing how positively people feel of someone or how people feel about something else, and you may incorporate yourself into that group saying that someone is amazing instead of saying that people are always saying how amazing this one person is.

11. You can look for verbs such as "is" or "should" and see if they have any sort of adjectives following them and make sure that they have factual evidence proving that the description fits.

12. The First Amendment

13. "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"
14. In today's world, the media has 2 main purposes. The first one is to make information about major or minor topics readily available to the public so that they are informed and aware of what is happening in the world around them. The other one is to influence the public morphing their stories in a way to convey a certain response or emotion from their audience.

15. All 3 headlines seem directed in different ways. The Reuters seems liberal, the Los Angeles Times seems conservative, and NPR seems neutral.

16. Yes, the bias of the media is very obvious from different sources. You can have one liberal media source focusing on the wrongs done by someone more conservative and use this to attack them. You can also have another media source at the same time showing the remorse or opinions from another side while showing how liberal sources are trying to use this to push an agenda. This can also be vice versa.

17. Conservative sites like Fox probably show other parts of the story you wouldn't see from a liberal perspective because showing the same information as a liberal source could really be confusing because they would have to try to show a different perspective while using data that goes against what they side with.

18. I don't think that all media should treat the coverage the same. The reason they choose different approaches to events or situations is because there is always more than one side to a story. If all media sites treated the information the same, there really wouldn't be any point in using different sources, and everything would be one sided. There is no way everyone can agree on a single view for an event, so they need to approach the situation differently to convey what they want to.

19. It's definitely ok for sources to be slanted either way, liberal or conservative. The reason we have different media sources is because different people have different opinions. These opinions could easily translate into how they word their story, and just giving facts can still give of a singular opinion that some people don't agree with. It's good if sources go left or right. It gives the readers options a larger picture of an event, and it gives them variety for influence.

20. Yes, it's good to see a different view of a story that doesn't quite fit with yours or your preferred media source's. It allows you to get a broader view of the situation and make more accurate opinions about it off more background.

21. I think the media can accurately provide information about what is happening around the world if they first acknowledge the neutral, no-sided facts and then word their writing in a way that gives broader range of information, maybe even acknowledging what the other side believes, and show what facts prove their side of the story. If both sides do that, we have a hopefully even playing field for people to choose from for choosing sides and views.