SIT IN ON MY CLASS: Professor Glenn pointed out the unfair criticism of President Trump’s visit to the hospital in Parkland, Florida in the wake of the school shooting here.
I thought some of you might be interested in how a story like this (not slugged “Opinion” or even “News Analysis”) is analyzed in my Media Ethics classes. (Apologies for the PDF link, but that’s the only way to share it.) The yellow highlighted sections are the statements I ask students to challenge, and the red type (I use a Socratic method) reflects the questions I ask my graduate students to discuss.
If “Democracy Dies in Darkness” then we have to admit that “Editorialization is Where Journalism Goes to Die.”