Transcript The News - mrs. Recia Smith

Discussion Questions
Question 1:
Read the first paragraph on pg.
479, identify the images the author
is describing.
Question 2:
How do the details about airplanes
and fire support Postman’s point
that television favors change?
Question 3:
Read the last paragraph on pg.
480, What topic will Postman
analyze more closely? What
technique does Postman use to
support his idea?
Question 4:
On pg 481, how do these
descriptive details support
Postman’s idea that a newscast is a
form of theater?
Question 5:
Look at the picture on page 482,
how does the image relate to the
idea of connecting people to their
world through news?
Question 6:
According to Postman, how are
newspaper and television
journalism similar? Different?
Question 8
Why must a news anchor convey
control above all other values?
Question 8:
Read the last paragraph on pg 484,
explain the advantages that
newspapers have over television
news reports.
Question 9:
What sense of the world does
television news cause?
Question 10:
What main idea does the anecdote
about the little girl support?