Schlolastic News
While out stumping for her mother the other day, Chelsea Clinton refused to answer a nine-year old Scholastic News reporter's question. I don't really have an opinion either way on that, but I'm really glad Scholastic News has been brought up.
Isa brings that drivel home weekly, and I'm shocked that teachers think it's an acceptable homework assignment. For the uninitiated, it's more or less USA today written for children, and often by children. Each week, Isa has to read a few articles about current events and fill out a few multiple choice questions on a type of newsprint that rejects a pencil stroke outright. Check out this example of some kid reporting.
I don't need to tell you they consider High School Musical as a top story. Also: are they a company, a media organization, or just in the business of selling crap to our kids?
Isa brings that drivel home weekly, and I'm shocked that teachers think it's an acceptable homework assignment. For the uninitiated, it's more or less USA today written for children, and often by children. Each week, Isa has to read a few articles about current events and fill out a few multiple choice questions on a type of newsprint that rejects a pencil stroke outright. Check out this example of some kid reporting.
I don't need to tell you they consider High School Musical as a top story. Also: are they a company, a media organization, or just in the business of selling crap to our kids?
Labels: Isa, newspapers, scholastic news, unsolicited criticism
posted by Bernie at
2:24 PM
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"Also: are they a company, a media organization, or just in the business of selling crap to our kids?"
All of the above! Not to mention a monopolist. I remember a few years ago in Keenan's class someone tried to find an alternative to Scholastic for fund-raising but they own most of the seeming competition.
Do they own Innisbrook gift wrap?
that's terrible journalism. the kid reporter sets out to find the meaning of the word "conservative," then drops the ball completely.
As far as the kid reporter goes, this article says that she was fine with Chelsea's treatment of her, that the press made it sound worse than it was, and that now she's reconsidering journalism because "I don't want to be like those people".
http://tinyurl.com/2t7vk4
but it's the other kid reporter who did the horrible story on fred thompson.
Why are we blaming the reporter? I bet she had a nice colorful quote about guns that was edited out.
And I don't know specifically if they own Innisbrook gift wrap, but those are the kinds of companies they own.
do they own nbc?
but it's the other kid reporter who did the horrible story on fred thompson.
Ah. I'd didn't read the second story the first time through. I can still see some teacher using these stories to teach the difference between bad journalism and good journalism. Maybe someone somewhere has her class read these articles and figure out where the reporter went wrong.
Sometimes, with Scholastic Weekly Reader, I ask Isa to find what's wrong with an article. I'll have her read this 'discovery of what it means to be conservative' and see what she thinks.
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