Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
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#2Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public school to ever touch such topics.
This is as comforting as hearing that schools are teaching religion.
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#3I heard on my preferred new service that everything in Illinois is bad and Chicago is a backwards place full of wrongthink.
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#4Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
Yep, the news has become just propaganda... no responsibility, no nothing. But people like to consume stuff they believe in...
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#5Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
From NPR's reporting, it seemed like the class was more about looking for additional sources or examining sources.
I'm sure the students could find tons of examples of NPR's nonsense using these methods. Especially relevant is checking photos or videos accompanying articles, the main example given in the report, cause all the big players get caught on this one constantly.
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#6They should probably include NPR's bias, too.
NPR deleted a tweet (with no retraction) that heavily implied a person who was violently attacked in his vehicle and then sped away to avoid the violence was a "right-wing extremist" involved in a "vehicle-ramming incident" [1] -- with zero reference to the violent attack initiated on the vehicle.
[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbEIlsUUcAACYht.jpg
Additionally, the protesters who attacked the vehicle were arrested, including one who brandished a gun at the vehicle and another who assaulted the driver. [2]
[2] https://www.wave3.com/2020/06/18/protesters-arrested-followi...
NPR's tweet came after the arrest and live video footage of the incident. They chose to run the story anyway.
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#7Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
> this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy".
Media literacy classes have already been shown to turn some percentage of kids into nazis no matter how you teach them, so any particular bias that might be getting instilled probably doesn’t matter too much.
If you tell kids to “Go on YouTube and do your own research about the Jews,” then whatever the teacher thinks stops being relevant after about 30 seconds.
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#8They should probably include NPR's bias, too. NPR deleted a tweet (with no retraction) that heavily implied a person who was violently attacked in his vehicle and then sped away to avoid the violence was a "right-wing extremist" involved in a "vehicle-ramming incident" [1] -- with zero reference to the violent attack initiated on the vehicle. [1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbEIlsUUcAACYht.jpg Additionally, the prote…
I think your links got messed up, they got cut off at the ellipses (...)
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#9Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
Don’t forget that COVID isn’t a threat and to head on down to all the nice restaurants in Chinatown!
Re: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
#10Given the primary example used on the kids, the 2016 election, this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Are they going to do a section studying the "coverage" of hunter biden's laptop? Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda. What about the origins of covid.. will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"? I could not trust a public scho…
Absolutely. This is somewhat similar to terms like "scientific creationism". It has nothing to do with science. From what I read in the article, this "news literacy" is more like pseudo-literacy, and similar to "scientific creationism", it lacks empirical support and cannot be meaningfully tested.