Contemporary Issues

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Contemporary Issues
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Learning Objectives Homework

• Students will understand classroom procedures and
  expectations.
• Students will differentiate between liberal and
  conservative views.
• Analyze personal ideology.

• Create Quia student account.
• Go to class website and complete issues survey by
  tomorrow.

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Class Agenda

• Intro Who is this woman?
• Syllabus
• Calendar
• Class Website
• Quia Account
• Books Self-analysis
• Analyze Conservative Liberal viewpoints

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Who is this woman?

• South County born and raised via Dutzow
• Marker
• Hoosier
• MJ
• Wudjawia
• Mom
• Mrs. H (a.k.a. Hags ?)
• HP

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Who is the woman?
These men are the reason Im crazy!
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Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs

• We all wantthe same things in life.  We want
  freedom we want the chance for prosperity we
  want to be the best we can be we want as few
  people suffering as possible, economically we
  want healthy children we want to have crime-free
  streets all these things, theyre pretty
  commonThe argument is how to achieve them.
• Rush Limbaugh, July 9, 2004

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CONSERVATIVES

• believe in personal responsibility, limited
  government, free markets, individual liberty,
  traditional American values and a strong national
  defense.  Believe the role of government should
  be to provide people the freedom necessary to
  pursue their own goals.Conservative policies
  generally emphasize empowerment of the individual
  to solve problems.

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LIBERALS

• believe in governmental action to achieve equal
  opportunity and equality for all, and that it is
  the duty of the State to alleviate social ills
  and to protect civil liberties and individual and
  human rights.  Believe the role of the government
  should be to guarantee that no one is in need. 
  Believe that people are basically good.Liberal
  policies generally emphasize the need for the
  government to solve peoples problems.

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Ideological Survey
1. C 6. L 11. L 16. C 21. C 2. C 7.
L 12. L 17. C 22. L 3. C 8. C 13. C 18.
C 23. L 4. L 9. C 14. C 19. L 24. C 5.
C 10. L 15. L 20. C 25. C
21-25 Liberal responses Strong
Liberal 16-20 Liberal responses Weak
Liberal 21-25 Conservative responses Strong
Conservative 16-20 Conservative responses
Weak Conservative 10-15 of either responses
Moderate
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Can we detect bias in our media?
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Contemporary Issues

• Day 2

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Class Agenda

• Emergency Procedures and Handbook Review
• Questions from prior day?
• Three Little Pigs Activity
• Media Lecture

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Class Objectives/ Homework

• Students will detect different perspectives while
  identifying facts and opinions.
• Students will evaluate the freedom of the press
  in connection with war time.
• Students will analyze the impact media has on an
  audience.
• Students will question the accuracy of the new
  media.

• Bring 3-ring binder tomorrow.
• Turn in CD and write up tomorrow.

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Three Little Pigs Activity

• With a partner
• Read the traditional story (purple)
• Read the true story (blue)
• Complete the Venn Diagram comparing the two
  stories
• Complete the Fact or Opinion side
• When finished--- begin reading chapter Media in
  red book.

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WHAT/WHO IS THE MEDIA?
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Forms of Media
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Interpret this quote

• Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
• Philip Graham (former publisher of the
  Washington Post)

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Analyze medias impact on society for the
following events

• Vietnam War
• First step on the moon
• Watergate
• September 11, 2001
• War in Iraq
• Presidential news coverage

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Make an argument

• The Internet is making the government more
  responsive to the people.

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Take Notes on the following
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Shaping of the First Amendment

• Freedom of the Press
• Free Press vs. National Security
• Transition from Vietnams search and destroy
  missions to Persian Gulfs press pools.
• The War in Iraq- embedded journalists

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Evaluate

• Of the 3 journalistic methods used in war time,
  is one more or less protective of national
  security?
• As a citizen is there one method that you would
  rather see used? Why?

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Television and Politics
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Kennedy Nixon Debate 1960
It was TV that turned the tide.--JFK
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Election Night 2000
Chad AKA- Dimpled Chad Pregnant
Chad Intended Chad
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The New Media

• Is this new media accurate?

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Contemporary Issues

• Day 3

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Trends in News Coverage Consequences

• (Linked to Website)

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TV News

• Coverage of the news has been reduced to 15-15
  second sound bites
• 24 hour, around the clock news coverage
• real time reporting
• Rise of reporting the news with an ideological
  agenda
• Many Americans getting the news from late night
  TV.

• Superficial coverage, in depth coverage rare.
• War can look like a video game on TV.
• Conservatives have long claimed a liberal bias,
  but conservative bias exists as well.
• fake news
• Americans have more choices in news coverage.

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Rise of Talk Radio

• 9 of 10 Americans listen to radio especially in
  cars
• Radio personalities
• Emergence of National Public Radio as legitimate
  news radio

• Americans have access to have news even in the
  car
• Listeners can interact on radio show to express
  their opinion

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Newspapers

• Even with competition from cable/internet, 63
  million Americans read the papers.
• Rise of national papers
• Intense advertising competition
• 60 of cities have competing newspapers

• News organizations driven by profit motive
• Less emphasis and coverage of local news

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Internet

• 35 of Americans go online for news at least once
  a week
• The online news audience is younger, make,
  better-educated and affluent.

• Accessibility of the news dramatically increased
• Not all internet information is credible
• Increasing digital divide between young-old,
  rich-poor, educated-uneducated.

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Intense Competition

• Print and electronic media under tremendous
  pressure to be the first to report a story.

• Profit motive- strong incentive to investigate
  personalities and expose scandal
• Sensationalism- feeding frenzy meaning dirt
  sells.
• Rush
• To get a story out without properly checking
  sources or researching it thoroughly

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Media Conglomerates

• Mega news empires
• Disney/ABC/ESPN
• TimeWarner/Turner Broadcasting,
• Viacom(CBS, MTV, VH1)
• Garnett Com. Owns 92 daily newspapers, 11 radio
  cable stations
• Clear Channel Com. Owns 60

• Homogenization of the news- consistency
• Danger of alternative viewpoints being excluded

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DEBATE TOPICS
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survey results