There are several questions to answer this week. Please make sure you answer each one for full points.

1. In your opinion, what are the top 10 most important news stories from the year 2000- today’s date. Please number them 1-10 and explain (next to each choice) why you picked it (in detail).

2. In your opinion how would 9/11 have been different if there was no television coverage?

3. What are the biggest news stories that you are currently following?

4. Which one is the most interesting or most important to you?

5. Are any of them affecting you personally?

6. What are your top 10 favorite TV shows of all time?

7. Have DVRs, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu and other streaming services, etc… affected the way you watch TV? Please explain the impact you feel these inventions have had on you and your family.

8. What impact did TV have on your family’s life? For example, did you all gather to watch a certain show together? Do you remember watching cartoons with your siblings on Saturday mornings when you were kids? Share with us your memories. For those of you who now have families of your own how has TV impacted your family? For example, are there shows you all watch together or do you all go into different rooms to watch what you want?

part two

Faking It: Sex Lies and Women’s Magazines
Directions:

Students are to read the articles “Faking It: Sex, Lies and Women’s Magazines” and “She Wrote Fake News for Cosmopolitan and Now Regrets Misleading Women on Feminism.”

Students are to watch the YouTube video about the Cosmopolitan writer, Sue Ellen Browder.

Students are to write a (full) 3-page paper discussing the articles and video.

The first and second pages should include a discussion regarding your opinions and thoughts on the articles and video. Be specific and use at least 2 examples from each article/video when responding.

The third page should include examples in current women’s magazines of the problems revealed and discussed by the various editors and writers interviewed in the article. You may use a hard copy of a magazine or an online copy of a woman’s magazine. If you find a men’s magazine that has examples of the same misleading information and tactics, you may use that too.

For example: look for examples that has small print that says “names have been changed” in the articles you are reading. Look for exaggerated claims regarding sex and its impact/benefit on health and beauty. Look for quotes from “real women” that don’t sound like how a real person might speak about sex.

Make sure to include the magazine you found the article in, the issue you are using, the name of the column or article, and its author. Give me specific details when describing the article(s) you are discussing.