Media

How The News Distorts Our Worldview

After watching this talk, students could conduct their own content analysis of British newspapers (both local and national) with the aim of establishing the amount of British versus international news. More creative students could present their findings in a map format as depicted by Miller.

In this TED talk Alisa Miller looks at the proliferation of American news stories in American newspapers (largely ignoring international stories):



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