LOL! (I have no idea what that means).
Firstly, if you are a third year looking for your homework, please look at the post below this. Scroll on down, lil' buddy.
As for my big, ugly Higher lot, below are some helpful questions to ask yourself when analysing how the story on the Church of England's position on gay marriage is presented by different sections of the media. Here is a link to the BBC News website, which, at the time of writing, still has the issue as the lead story.
There is also a link to the story here.
Some Questions to Ask of a News Report:
- Is the news source reliable?
- If the story has not been reported on that news source, why do you think that is?
- Is the the way the story is presented reasonably balanced or biased in any way? Why?
- Does the news source try and persuade you to a particular point of view? If so, how?
- Does the writer/reporter make it obvious that s/he is giving a point of view, or is s/he trying to present opinion as fact? How do you know?
- Does the news source/writer/reporter appear to have a wider set of values they wish to push through the story?
- Has the new source selected a particular angle to tell the story? Perhaps a personal view/experience, or focusing on one particular aspect of the story.
- Do you agree with what you read/see/hear? Why?
Some News Sources You Could Investigate:
- Twitter (try searching for key words and hashtags)
- Newspapers (Guardian, Independent, Scotsman, Herald, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail)
- Facebook (Just use the search facility)
- Blogs (when searching in Google, click on the "Blogs" tab on the left hand side)
- TV news (BBC 24 news is online)
- Radio news (Could try BBC iPlayer)
- Special interest websites (Church of England site / Pink News)
- Internet news sites (BBC News)
This looks like enormous fun. I wish I was doing this homework!
Mr K.
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