This wonderful piece of humour thoroughly dissects news website reporting in a way which illuminates the whole genre: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1 You’ll never read such an item the same way again!
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News Now
News Now is a a portal site which feeds news from all over the world and from lots of different sources, keeping you up to date with the news now. This is a very clear website with little flags next…
And They’re Off!
You are all probably aware by now that it is election time! From now until May there will be nothing on the news except for who’s where, saying what on what issue and about who and, more importantly, who will…
Daily Courant
On this day in 1702, the first British newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published. The content of its two columns was largely foreign news with no comment on them thus allowing readers to make up their own minds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Courant A bit different to…
The Onion
And finally on this week’s theme we have The Onion, a site that received a Peabody Award for “providing ersatz news that has a worrisome ring of truth”. http://www.theonion.com
Views of the World
Here’s a comment on (US) news shaping views of the world: http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/806 Not that UK news isn’t guilty of similar. (The BBC is publishing a report today on a study about Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are presented in the…
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