Revision: NEWS

What is news?

What do the letters of TATSD stand for?

• Title, Author, Text Type, Source, Date

• Title, Answer, Texts, Source, Date

• Tone, Aspect, Textual, Sauce, Date

• Date

What do the letters of TCPIA stand for?

• Tone, Comprehension, Practice, Issue, Audience

• Text, Contention, Purpose, Indication, Author

• Tone, Contention, Purpose, Issue, Audience

Tick all the questions you should ask to evaluate a news source.

• Does it use lots of emotive language?

• Does it sound too good to be true?

• What is the contention?

• Can I find this information confirmed elsewhere?

• Is this source reliable?

Tick all the features of UNreliable news sources.

• The title is clear and unemotive.

• The title is worded to make you emotional about the issue.

• The images don't quite match the content, or there are no images. There's no other proof, such as reliable sources of information (people who are experts on the issue)

• The author is reliable, based on your research; they work for a widely respected news source.

• The author has been criticised by other more reliable sources, or they work for a tabloid, or highly biased news source.

Tick the more RELIABLE news sources.

• Daily Telegraph

• Sunrise (Channel 7)

• SBS

• ABC

• Al Jazeera

What is the problem with using emotive language in a news source? List all the potential issues it could have.

What is social news, and why is it an issue in finding reliable news?

How can you tell the intended AUDIENCE of an article?

• By asking who the article talks about

• By asking who would read this out of their own interest

• By asking who watches this

What is the TONE of a news piece?

• The colour of the picture

• The sound of an article

• The emotion/s present in an article's language