the class resumes the media monitor. The 5th regular media monitor can be posted here, as usual, with the usual deadline of 7pm Tuesday. [the corrected record of points earned for media monitor work will be posted again in class, that is: Since the purpose of the exercise is to develop the habit of reading or viewing the news with awareness (on a regular basis), students are not allowed to cram, or to submit more than one post to make up for missed posts except for the two bonus posts that had an extended deadline (Feb. 19 and 20). That is — the media monitor is weekly, or one per week, either regular or bonus: i.e., students who had submitted two (a regular and a bonus) will be credited only one for that week and the other will be credited for the next week.]
Very entertaining –- as movie theme, TV serial, or short story adaptation; but as news and public affairs segment, very perplexing.
(photo from NBC, Grimm Season 4, used here non-commercially for academic purposes)
A bonus media monitor (5th) is open starting today up to Feb. 20 at 5pm (deadline) on news and public affairs programs that feature “superstitious and pseudo-scientific beliefs and practices, such as supernaturalpowers, foretelling of the future, astrology,phrenology, palm-reading, numerology, mind-reading, hypnotism, faith healing or similar subjects xxx” (these segments are actually for promotion of products and services on occasion of the Chinese New Year).
Very amusing to those who are aware of their leisure value but too abysmal for the credulous and gullible.
Please use the following, as applicable, in your discussion:
KBP Broadcast Code of Ethics 2007. “Art. 13. Superstition and the Occult. Sec. 1. Programs featuring superstitious and pseudo-scientific beliefs and practices, such as supernatural powers, foretelling of the future, astrology,phrenology, palm-reading, numerology, mind-reading, hypnotism, faith healing or similar subjects shall be careful not to induce belief in them. Care shall be taken to prevent the exploitation of people who may be easily swayed by such superstitious and pseudo-scientific beliefs and practices.”
By analogy, the online news media may be included for the media monitor.
Or a regular media monitor may be submitted (4th) with deadline tomorrow, Tuesday, at 7pm.
Students have already been informed, not in a supernatural way but repeatedly, of the different ways of submitting the posts.
