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Student Exercise

You might watch the documentary fi lm Outfoxed , which is about the
bias in Fox News. Then study a newscast by Fox in comparison to a
newscase by one of the less political news organizations such as CBS.
Or, on any given day, buy three or four newspapers and then go
online and track down foreign newspapers such as the Globe and Mail
or the Guardian , and compare how they all report on the same event.

Notes

1. “ Cold - Blooded Killer, ” Philadelphia Inquirer , February 15, 2009, http://www.
philly.com (accessed October 10, 2009).
2. See, for example, “ The Taliban ’ s Rising Tide ” (editorial), New York
Times , July 11, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/opinion/11fri1.
html (accessed October 10, 2009).
3. Graeme Smith, “ Talking to the Taliban, ” Globe and Mail , http://www.
theglobeandmail.com/talkingtothetaliban/ (accessed October 10, 2009).
Extracts from the Globe and Mail are copyright CTVglobemedia Publishing
Inc. All rights reserved.
4. Taghreed El - Khodary, “ Grief and Rage at Stricken Gaza School, ” New
York Times , January 7, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/
middleeast/08scene.html (accessed October 10, 2009).
5. Steven Erlanger, “ A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery, ” New York Times ,
January 10, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/world/middleeast/
11hamas.html (accessed October 10, 2009). All rights reserved. Used by per-
mission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The print-
ing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Material without express
written permission is prohibited.
6. Steven Erlanger, “ Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the Fog of Urban Warfare, ”
New York Times , January 16, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/
world/middleeast/17israel.html?ref=middleeast (accessed October 10, 2009).
7. Erlanger, “ Weighing Crimes and Ethics. ”
8. “ Israel Pounds Gaza by Air, ” Globe and Mail , January 8, 2009, http://v1.the-
globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090105.wvmideast_update0105/
VideoStory/specialComment/?pid=RTGAM.20090106.wgaza_main07
(accessed October 10, 2009).
9. “ Why It ’ s Hard to Beat Hamas, ” Globe and Mail , January 8, 2009, http://
v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wcogaza07/
BNStory/International (accessed October 10, 2009).