Citizenship Lesson 4

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Media bias

• Citizenship Lesson 4
• Media Part 1
• Is the media biased?
• Aim to understand how the media may be biased

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For starters

• Discuss what celebrities have been on the news
  this morning?
• ? What is headline news today?

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By the end of today, you will be able to

• State 2 ways that the media may be biased.
• State how the media chose different stories for
  different audiences.

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Task 1 - in groups

• ? Look at todays top story in the Celeb news of
  Celebdaq. Summarise the story.
• Record your ideas on the worksheet.

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Discuss

• Using the internet or a variety of newspapers
  research the main story in your groups.
• ? Do different newspapers report on the same
  story in different ways?
• ? How and why?

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To sum it up - discuss

• ? What power does the media have in our society?
• ? How does the media influence our opinions?

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Homework

• Read Celebdaq news to get a summary of celebrity
  news, then watch the news and read the newspapers
  for the stories reported in Celebdaq over the
  next week.
• See if you can notice any media bias. Are all
  stories reported in the same way?