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What is the

What is the. “the media”?. What are the uses of . t he media?. Ok, so what is the media’s . most important purpose ?. Is the media . meeting its purpose? . Ummm , Sarah,. What is a “ gotcha media ”?. Ok, Saturday Night Live , how did it really go down?.

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  1. What is the “the media”?

  2. What are the uses of the media?

  3. Ok, so what is the media’s most important purpose?

  4. Is the media meeting its purpose?

  5. Ummm, Sarah, What is a “gotchamedia”?

  6. Ok, Saturday Night Live, how did it really go down?

  7. What the heck is up with these dudes?

  8. Detecting Bias How Opinions and Personal Views Skew Everyone’s Vision and make people want to punch each other in the face

  9. “I’ve got this real moron thing I do; it’s called thinking! And I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinion.” George Carlin

  10. What the heck is “bias”? • A strong inclination of the mind or a preconceived opinion about something or someone • A bias  may be favorable or unfavorable Bad!  Good! 

  11. How is bias developed? • Family • Peers • Culture • Life Experience

  12. Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America.

  13. Context?

  14. Washington Crossing the Delaware

  15. “Father, I cannot tell a lie”

  16. TR and the Rough RidersStorming of San Juan Hill, Puerto Rico

  17. Time Frame? • When was Spanish-American War? • When was “Makers & Defenders of America” written? • Time as an ingredient to history

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