Blog Assignment #2. Bias and Media Literacy

After discussing the growing importance of media literacy and understaning and identifying bias in our SJ class. I want you to examine a few websites about one of the most important and socially significant activists of the last 100 years. Martin Luther King Jr.

Visit the following websites and try to identify bias, facts and opinion. Answer the follow up questions below about the websites:

1. Does anything immediately come to mind about the website names or domains?

2. Did you find any biases in the websites? Explain how you figured this out.

3. If you were going to write a report on MLK jr. which website would you use? Why? What steps would you take in establishing what is fact and what is opinon?

4. Explain why media literacy is so important during these current times.

http://www.mlkonline.net/

www.martinlutherking.org

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.