Day 4: Sussing Out Biases and Imbalances

Service Description

Objective: Through movie clips and a fun group activity, students will learn about the ways conflicts of interest and biases (stereotyping, scapegoating) interfere with a writer’s objectivity and neutrality, leading to untrustworthy content. They’ll also perform a script called, “The Bad Reporter” that illuminates bias and a conflict of interest, and learn to apply easy to remember signposts for assessing copy for biases and conflicts of interests.