Current Events - Our Media
When viewing or reading the news, understand that as objective or balanced as the source (TV show, website, radio show) may make itself out to be, there always exists some subjective or biased content. In other words, everyone has their own opinions. It's hard to look at any event without letting your prejudices or biases cloud or alter your perception. This applies to the news we watch, listen, and read everyday.
Bias - an inclination of temperament or outlook; especially : a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment; prejudice.
An example of looking at the same event or story with different biases:
Read the following versions of the same story/event -
The Three Little Pigs (from the pigs perspective)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (from the wolf's perspective)
Which one is true? Or is the truth found somewhere in the middle?
Current
Event Sites
Student Current Event Links
CNN: Student News New York Times: Student Connections AOL@School: Middle School
NewsHour Extra: Students Headline Spot for Kids Kid's News Room.org
Local News Links
Turnto10.com ABC6 EyewitnessNews12 Kent County Times Coventry Courier The Providence Journal
National Commercial News Links (portray themselves as objective):
ABCNews CBSNews CNN MSNBC Fox News NYTimes The Washington Post Time Newsweek U.S. News
National Public News Links
Public Broadcasting System C-Span BBC
Left-leaning News Sites: Right-leaning News Site:
American Prospect The American Conservative
Commondreams The National Review