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HOW TO
CHOOSE
YOUR NEWS
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1 Warm up

In pairs, answer the following questions.

1. Where do you usually read or watch the news? Newspapers? Social media? Online news?
2. How much time do you usually spend reading news articles and watching videos about news on
TV or the Internet each week? Is it something that is important for you to do? Why/Why not?
3. What are the main sources for news in your country? What is your opinion about each of those
sources?
4. Where did your parents get their news from when they were growing up? Is it the same as where
they get it now? If it has changed, how is it different?
5. How much do you trust your news sources? What steps if any do you take to make sure you are
getting a true and full picture of current events?

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6 Talking point

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1. What makes you choose the sources where you get your news stories from? What do you like
about them?
2. Which sources of news do you not use? Why?
3. Can you give an example of a news story that was reported in different ways by different sources?
What did they say? Why were their versions different?
4. Now you have watched the video, will you do anything different in the way you choose your news?
Why/Why not?

7 Extended activity/homework

You are going to write a short report on how the news is reported by different news sources. Follow
these steps:

1. Find a news story that is being reported by a lot of different media sources. You may want to try
looking at the following: CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The BBC, The Times, The Guardian, The Intercept,
The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The New YorkPost, and any news blogs you may be familiar with.
2. Look at the different language that is used in those stories. Is the event being told by the people
who saw it, or is it the words of the reporter?
3. How is the event being reported differently by different sources?

Now write a report of about 250 words which gives:

• a brief summary of what the story was about

• what the different sources said about the story
• examples of how the different sources used language to report the story and what effect this had
on the story

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