Key Vocab
What is News?
How to Detect Media Bias in the News
The Political Spectrum
CER for Persuasive
Non-Fiction
100

Something that has high importance.

What are priorities? 

100

Today, we have _________  to news whenever we want it.

What is access? 

100

An editor who leaves information out of an article is expressing bias through ______________.

What is omission? 

100

The desire to return to a a previous political state.

What is Libertarianism?

100

Your main point or topic sentence.

What is the Claim?

200

Opinions that effect the way something is seen or presented.

What is bias? 

200

Political candidates know exactly how to find young people in the internet who are ______________ in news and current events activities. 

What is engaged? 

200

Where a story is placed influences what a reader or viewer thinks about its _______________.

What is importance? 

200

Complete state control of the economy and society.

What is Communism?

200

Analyzing how the evidence proves the claim.

What is Reasoning? 

300

The ability to get and use something. `

What is access?

300

News has two ____________: it must be current and it must mean something to people. 

What are priorities? 

300

Headlines can present carefully hidden bias and _______________.

What are prejudices? 

300

Balancing social change with tradition.

What is Moderate? 

300

CER stands for these three words.

What is Claim, Evidence, and Response. 

400

Fake or misleading.

What is distorted? 

400

A steady exposure to sensational images like "car crashes" & "shootings" can give us a ________________ view of what goes on in the world. 

What is distorted? 

400

News media often use _______________ and  ______________ to describe people. 

What are labels and titles. 

400

Focus of free markets, traditional values, and lower taxes.

What is Conservativism? 

400

Examples from personal experience.

What is Evidence? 

500

To be interested and involved in something.

What is engaged? 

500

Not all bias is __________________. 

What is deliberate? 

500

Companies often supply news outlets with  ____________, photos, or videos. 

What are news releases? 

500

Focus in social progress and econimic regulation. 

What is Liberalism?

500

Synonym for persuade

What is convince?

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