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I was wondering where this took place. I know a young man who was a producer of a local news broadcast and quit out of principle because the victims were, in his view, being exploited to enforce an agenda and sensationalism.
This is CBS 2 Chicago. I sent an email to them about my disappointment and questioning how I can trust any video that they air that could have been edited. It’s especially disturbing that did it to a 4 year old kid who doesn’t know better than to answer questions literally as asked.
It’s tough to find, so I will include a link to the page giving an email address to email concerns:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tips/
Chief Concerns
So, what’s on your mind? Is there something that you think just isn’t right?
Send Your Concerns To Jay Levine at jjlevine@cbs.com.
Unfortunately, I’m not surprised. I’ve grown so weary of the media’s manipulation of “news”.
The one thing that I do like about modern technology is that I can use these kinds of things for teaching purposes. I am scheduled to teach race and ethnic relations in the spring and this is definitely getting on the syllabus.
Starluna. I taught an entire senior level college course themed on Propaganda (it was for the Rhetoric/Writing/Composition majors).
My department, and my college, made it clear afterwards that they didn’t like my syllabus: I had the students learning propaganda tricks and identifying them across the political spectrum. My pro-union, pro-old school liberal department hated half of the work; my pro-corporation, pro-conservative administration hated the other half.
I wasn’t permitted to teach the course again.
TD: that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.” – Bertrand Russell
Thought Dancer, that is hilarious.
We certainly can’t have students thinking for themselves. That just would not do.
1032: I’m a huge fan of Bertrand Russell. I even named a computer language I created after him (Bertrand, not Russell).
Iron Knee. One of my graduating seniors, halfway through the semester, finally looked me in the eye and said “you mean, our politicians are lying to us?”
Some things, I just can’t make up.