California becomes the first US state to ban animal fur products
California becomes the first US state to ban animal fur products
How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda
Only a small number of citizens are skilled in recognizing bias and propaganda in the news disseminated in their country. Only a relatively few are able to detect one-sided portrayals of events or seek out alternative sources of information and opinion…the over-whelming majority of people in the world, untrained in critical thinking, are at the mercy of the news media in their country (The Foundation for Critical Thinking).
The main purpose of this assignment is to increase your awareness of news media bias, to learn to fact check and to analyze how this affects you and our democratic political process. In this assignment you will learn to be a critical reader/listener. You will then apply this skill to expose biases and untruthful information and then analyze the short and long term effects your findings will have on our democratic political process. This is NOT a pro/con type of analysis!
GENERAL GUIDELINES:
This written assignment must be typed and saved as a Word (.doc or .docx) or .pdf file. GOOGLE files cannot be submitted. You’ll need to download your google file and resave it into a Word or .pdf file.
Your assignment should be 5-7 pages, double-spaced, one inch margins, 12 pt. font. No Cover Page is necessary, but parenthetical in-text citation and a Works Cited page (MLA format) are required.
Be sure to include your Works Cited IN YOUR assignment document file. To learn more about citation, use the Purdue Owl website and avoid plagiarism: https://owl.english.purdue.
SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS:
TOPIC
California becomes the first US state to ban animal fur products
CHOOSING MEDIA SOURCES
News media bias is most profound when news media sources take on very specific political perspectives. Yet, most Americans choose only news media sources that match their own political perspective. This creates what many call “the echo chamber.”
For this assignment, you must choose two news media sources with very different perspectives. There are several political perspectives; the two most common are conservative (right leaning) and liberal (left leaning). It is up to you to figure out the political perspective of the sources you are considering. (Here are some links to help get you started: http://www.allsides.com/about-
https://www.washingtonpost.
There are several formats from which to choose your sources; these include print (newspaper, magazine), radio, television and the internet. You may choose your sources from any combination of these formats (i.e. two internet sources OR one television source and one internet source).
Answer Preview…………..
The banning of animal fur products has become widespread due to concerns regarding the ethics and welfare of animals. Many countries are considering phasing out farming of fur or adopting strict policies that will regulate or cause the closure of fur farms. According to activists for animal rights, fur farming is a cruel and immoral act to animals. There are many alternatives to fur and, therefore, it is wrong to raise animals mainly to get fur. Activists claim that there is no significant justification as to why people wear fur, and it is barbaric to kill animals for their fur………
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