THE GUARDIANS
Definition arguments: The Guardians – Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year
Chapter 9: Definition arguments: The Guardians – Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year
You may read this chapter but I am veering off track for this assignment too and have created my own assignment.
Look at the irony of definition.
Tim magazine calls Journalists “The Guardians” and certain politicians (specifically 1) call them “Enemy of the people”
Watch my ppt on Fake News and then read Time Magazine’s article: The Guardians. The Guardians were neamed 2018 person of the year.
Who are the guardian?.
Choose 1 guardian that interests you specifically.
What were the consequences of real reporting for this guardian.
Why is it important to not only recognize fake news but to also counter it? Who or what does it affect?
Choose 1 sentence from that article that really spoke to you – this will be your golden sentence and then using my TLQs template (1st week modules) analyze that sentence.
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Introduction
Journalists are the people in charge of informing the public of what is happening in their places of residence and the world at large. They are therefore expected to be as truthful as possible. This they have to do at any cost. One group of journalists does not take this lightly and goes all in their job. The guardians have been around for a while and are here to stay.
Who are the guardians?
Guardians are journalists that are seeking to give a fair report of news regardless of what they are faced with. Whether it is violence or oppression or being wrongly accused of broadcasting fake news, they are ready to do it fearlessly. In the previous years’ Time News Magazine, they were named as the person of the year, for their courage. Some of them were the five staffs from Capital Gazette in Maryland, who had…
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