IB1 - March 15th

IB1 - March 15th

Agenda + HW

• Checking in

• Paper 1 - UK Weather - Recap

• Newsbias - how is it used?

• Application of Newsbias to BBC

• BOW - Sidewalk Bubblegum

• HW: Chapter 9 of Animal Farm - Wednesday

Open Ended

How is this week looking for you?

UK Weather Report

What can we say about the use of the images?

How might you tie this into your analysis?

Whats the purpose of the embedded interviews?

What were some of the key linguistic techniques you noted?

Open Ended

Overall, does analyzing and working with a News Report seem easier or harder than a speech?

Newbias

What is it, how is it created, what is its purpose?

Bias - by definition

Refers to showing an unjustified favoritism toward something or someone. Thus, on a very simplistic level, media bias reders to the media exhibiting an unjustifiable favoritism as they cover they news.

Informational Bias

• Personalization

• Dramatization

• Fragmentation

• Authority Disorder

• Listen/read the definition of each is and try and decipher what the consequences of each is

Personalization

• People centered

• Interviews, first person accounts, eye-witness testimony, etc.

• Personal, direct, immediate

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Dramatization

• Narrative presentation of the news

• Sensational, shocking, scandolous, etc.

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Fragmentation

• Treating stories in isolation

• Ignoring connection to other stories or context

Authority Disorder(bit of a combo)

• Perpetually presenting individuals and parties involved as in conflict

• Authority(police, government leaders, public officials, etc.)

• Disorder(criminals, natural disasters, terrorism, etc. )

Let's Practice - BBC One Minute World News

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/10462520