ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

Eng329 News Literacy

Deconstructing TV News

Poynter Institute

Once you are in the news neighborhood, you can start to deconstruct TV news stories to determine whether the information is fair, accurate and reliable.

TV watching is, by nature, a passive event, but it is important for you to remain actively engaged when watching television news. By applying the deconstruction principles discussed previously, you will be able to decide whether the premise of the story is fair, accurate and reliable and can be trusted enough to be acted upon.

Assignment: Click here deconstruction principles to go the website at the Poynter Institute and register for the course on watching television. It won’t cost you anything. The course will take some time but it can be done in sections. The program has a tracking element that will advise me when you have been on line with it

Here is another link if you have trouble with that first one:

Click here: Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer

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