Journalistic Integrity (Wednesday, April 12 - 6th period)

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

Students will find copies of the last three editions of the school paper on their desks.

"Afternoon," Rita said genially. "Take a look at the paper, boys and girls. I'd like you all to find something in the context of the paper that you see as bad journalism, based on what we've covered this term. Bias, lack of context or clarification, and so on. Set to it."

Comments

Re: OOC

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

[But in the same vein, you have the capacity to defend/promote the paper IG by arguing with Rita/the class. It's completely IC and treated as such - and if someone actually says something that isn't a shippy X/B comment, Rita will be asking them to back up their character's opinion. And if things seem to be heading in a mean-spirited direction from the students, there'll be interference, absolutely. The way this is handled - the level/harshness of criticism - is completely up to the students.

Having said that, it honestly didn't occur to check OOC, as the paper has always been treated as IC info, and IC writing - and you have my apologies for not thinking of that.]

Re: OOC

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

[well, I suppose it depends on what's being criticized. if you're going to criticize the content, that would be an ic thing - but if you're criticizing grammar, etc? that's more ooc, in my opinion. I realize that this is a very IC assignment for Rita to give though :)]

Re: OOC

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

[Point taken - though I would argue that writing style should be considered IC as well. From my perspective, grammar/typos aren't fair game, whereas language/syntax would be. Make sense?]