George Floyd Memorial Square, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Kerem Yuce) News articles can transmit nearly the same content while evoking a widely different array of emotional responses from audiences. While Western news sources have traditionally couched their reporting under an umbrella of “objectivity,” today we look at emotional language and tone in news reporting to ask theContinue reading “#3 – Anniversary of the Murder of George Floyd: Emotion, Objectivity, and the News”
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#2 – Covid 19 Origins: Propaganda in Conversation
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Thomas Peter/Reuters. How do we approach news stories that talk to one another without saying a word at all? Today we look at two Chinese and U.S. news articles which both demand information from the other nation about the origins of the Covid-19 virus. The problem is that both authorsContinue reading “#2 – Covid 19 Origins: Propaganda in Conversation”
#1 – Global Environmental Policy: Authorship, Audience, and Publication Source
Taiwanese Yang Ming shipping freighter pulls into Los Angeles Port. Allen J. Schaben: Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-03/port-ships-are-becoming-la-worst-polluters-regulators-plug-in This propaganda workshop focuses on media literacy through comparison by analyzing two news stories published by major Chinese and U.S. media outlets. Both are “op-ed” pieces, a term that means the author’s opinions are their own. However, aContinue reading “#1 – Global Environmental Policy: Authorship, Audience, and Publication Source”
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