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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. Bell-ringer. Respond in writing to the following prompts:. How might the adage “With great power comes great responsibility” relate to the news media? What power does the news media have? What responsibilities do they have? .

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

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  1. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

  2. Bell-ringer Respond in writing to the following prompts: How might the adage “With great power comes great responsibility” relate to the news media? What power does the news media have? What responsibilities do they have?

  3. Powers of the News Media • Gatekeeper: The news media decide what becomes news by introducing topics and giving them lots of “airtime”. • Example: The media’s coverage of the debate about Obama’s birthplace legitimized the debate and made it an issue in the election. • Scorekeeper: The news media keeps track of who is important by the amount of airtime and the type of coverage it provides. • Example: In the 2008 presidential primary, the media did not give Democratic candidates Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd as much attention as the other candidates; therefore, Kucinich and Dodd were not considered viable contenders. • Watchdog: The news media scrutinizes powerful people, agencies, and organizations and alerts the public to unethical behavior, injustice, inequities, safety concerns, and abuses of power. • Example: The media exposed the torture of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

  4. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility Gatekeepers Scorekeepers Watchdogs (Decide who and what is important) (Expose malfeasance)

  5. Code of Ethics Annotate the article using the following symbols: ! • = This is really important • = I don’t understand this • = Journalists rarely follow this • Some statements may have more than one annotation. ?  “The role of the press is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable” --H.L. Mencken

  6. Journalist=Superhero? Respond in writing to the following prompt: How does the role of journalist compare to that of a superhero?

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