In this day of so many misleading articles on the news, whether in TV reporting by cutting short a report, or in print, by personalizing the article to fit the writer's leanings....it occurred to me that college courses would be very beneficial to our future as a nation by dissecting articles, book reviews, play reviews, to teach students the difference between good reviews and bad reviews. Another point is to understand an opinion article versus a factual article.
We need to bring back factual reporting instead of reporting with bias, and clearly identify for the public the difference between suppostion and facts.
What really bothers me is that the public has to be on guard for truth in advertising, yet political campaigns have no such restriction. Our country deserves more than that....why are there laws for one group and not others....? Maybe we need to have the colleges start dissection of the laws ....in the law schools, since no one else seems to be interested in reviewing the laws on the books and removing, updating, or consolodating them.
A review of the benefits of our elected politicians, and the spending they do for public projects, pork barrel etc., would be a great challenge for courses in college . How to become a purposeful politician, what changes need to be made so that everyone in Washington goes back to work for the people and not for re-election?
Oh well, what do I know! Maybe you can run with this if you are teaching school, what great fun classes you would have even on the high school level. A whole semester of learning integrated in charts, analytics of how misleading the public affects public opinion. Words that sting and words that are smooth...imagine! Then try to get published in opinion and review columns even if in your own school...and get feedback.
We need to bring back factual reporting instead of reporting with bias, and clearly identify for the public the difference between suppostion and facts.
What really bothers me is that the public has to be on guard for truth in advertising, yet political campaigns have no such restriction. Our country deserves more than that....why are there laws for one group and not others....? Maybe we need to have the colleges start dissection of the laws ....in the law schools, since no one else seems to be interested in reviewing the laws on the books and removing, updating, or consolodating them.
A review of the benefits of our elected politicians, and the spending they do for public projects, pork barrel etc., would be a great challenge for courses in college . How to become a purposeful politician, what changes need to be made so that everyone in Washington goes back to work for the people and not for re-election?
Oh well, what do I know! Maybe you can run with this if you are teaching school, what great fun classes you would have even on the high school level. A whole semester of learning integrated in charts, analytics of how misleading the public affects public opinion. Words that sting and words that are smooth...imagine! Then try to get published in opinion and review columns even if in your own school...and get feedback.
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