Media Literacy

1-  Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and AP News

2- NBC News, Mother Jones, and Axios

3- Washington Times, Newsmax, and National Review

4- Conservative- Bill O'Reilly and Fox News: Hannity, Liberal - Crooks and Liars and Times Magazine

5- Facts - A piece of evidence that can be proven true and factual.

6- Opinions - a statement based on a persons beliefs and thoughts.

7- Informed Opinion - a statement based on persons beliefs and thoughts when informed about the situation.

8- When writing for The Dispatch, One could find facts on the internet, with educated teachers and peers, or at other newspaper articles.

9- Other teachers and peers could also give you informed opinions when you do interviews or questionnaires.

10- Opinions could creep into your writing when you are doing an article about a touching subject or if you subconsciously slip some of your opinions in your writing to make it sound more interesting.

11- Words or sayings like 'I think' or 'I thought' or 'In my opinion' would be cues that I added an opinions in the article.

12- The 1st Amendment

13- Freedom of speech, the press, religion, and assembly, and the right to petition the government

14- The purpose of Journalism in todays world is to keep everyone informed of what is going on and to provide places to read about them.

15- The headlines have the strong hook to get the readers to look at them. "Paul Manafort convicted...", "US media is divided..."

16- I think certain media outlets are bias because Fox News put a bunch of funny cartoon drawings of the court room and NPR seemed sincere in their reports.

17- I think they chose different things because they have different teams that choose what to cover and if that topic is trending.

18- I don't think that all media outlets should have to treat coverage the same because then nobody would be able to express their opinions and share their point of views on the different topics and situations.

19- It is okay if one media outlet has a different point of view that the other, just as long a people click on the right one before getting mad at the "wrong" point of view.

20- There are reasons to click on a media outlet who doesn't report the way you like because you need to hear both sides of the story before you do an important factual paper or a worldwide article.

21- The media can accurately report current events with travelling to the place its taking place, interviewing the locals, research on the topic, and just experiencing how locals feel about the topic.