Classroom | Candid Feet #88

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[00:00:00]Yes.

[00:00:02]Well, what?

[00:00:03]You know, there's so many like people's like opinions that like come into an influence on it. Yeah, everybody has different perspectives on everything and so they think they How does this article say it is different? We don't want to learn about calculus right now. Ew. No, I don't want to learn about calculus.

[00:00:18]>> [clears throat] >> So, yeah, different perspectives feeding in kind of adding their own spin to it, yeah. Mason? They're kind of like trying to sell like a story and they might doctor it. They might like try to like interpret it a different way to make make it more appealing to their audience. So, like they say it.

[00:00:34]>> follow the paper trail, follow the money. If you can make sales by blowing up the story out of proportion, for sure, yeah.

[00:00:41]Any others?

[00:00:43]One more.

[00:00:47]Yeah. A little bit going off of what we were saying, but like depending on what kind of news place it is, like if it's more Republican or more Democrat, they're going to change it to benefit their party more or like their ideas more. And then highlighting like the negatives of other side. Yeah, to push a narrative essentially and just convince people to go along with their side. Yeah.

[00:01:10]All about persuasion. Good.

[00:01:13]So, now that I kind of know where you guys are at, we can actually start with the activity. Uh so, that handout that I gave you, you will go on this site All Sides [clears throat] and I'm going to let you guys just pick whatever issue you want to look at. I'll I'll just show you for example, I'll do immigration.

[00:01:35]This site All Sides will give you stories. ICE agent charged with assault during Minneapolis immigration crackdown. Click on that.

[00:01:43]>> [clears throat] >> And if it decided to load, it will give you articles that are considered left, right, and center. So, all perspectives.

[00:01:54]And I want you to just look through these and fill out that packet that I gave you. Look at the language, the tone, the bias that might be present in these and just follow along with the packet. I'll give you 20, 25 minutes to do that. We'll check in at that point, okay?

[00:02:14]Thank you. Cool.

[00:02:15]Any questions on anything, just let me know.

[00:02:18]Okay.

[00:02:20]>> [snorts] [clears throat] [snorts] >> I just realized that E-dog never sees any of the videos that we're watching.

[00:02:44]I know, we should probably aim it >> [clears throat] >> One topic for you guys. Is that what it's called hosting? Yes.

[00:02:51]But I'll Okay.

[00:02:54]Great.

[00:02:59]Okay.

[00:03:01]They they're bad at their own side.

[00:03:03]Because then that makes their side look better. Because if they're fighting within one group of people and the other side doesn't have fighting within that group of people.

[00:03:12]Yeah, it makes them look like they're not unified and that is a weakness for them, for sure. Yeah, good. Um after reading all your articles, uh how do you think reading multiple perspectives can help to strengthen our democracy?

[00:03:30]Is painting the pic the full picture important in doing that or is it I don't know, there's some argument that it makes it weaker.

[00:03:40]That knowing everything makes That reading from multiple sides.

[00:03:46]Like it makes it stronger cuz it's like you get like multiple perspectives which they can bring in more like like a Republican if it's like against Trump like the Democrats the Democratic like article is probably going to like say like more bad things about Trump that could be like true that like they just paint it like add extra things that like a Republican [clears throat] article won't bring up about him in certain situations cuz they're trying to make him look good. Like it might not necessarily be something bad to everybody, but they'll bring it up which makes you be like, oh like I see that now like this is a part of it. While like also like just being a straight forward like in my opinion mine my center one was just straight forward like there was really no like opinion.

[00:04:18]It was just like here's what's happening and like who's in it. And I feel like obviously like between if you're like Republican reading yours and then reading like the straight forward like this is what's happening, like you'll just have a better understanding while also then like I think I'll have multiple understandings. Yeah. Yeah, and if you and if you're not a sheep following one side, you're going to be able to pick apart you're going to Sorry. It's okay.

[00:04:41]You're going to be able to pick apart arguments and actually fill in the gaps.

[00:04:45]You can say what you wanted to say if you want. I was going to say that >> Sorry for stealing your mojo.

[00:04:49]>> No, it's fine. Um I was going to say like if you're obviously very conservative ideologies and you're part of the Republican Party and you're all this stuff and if you read all these different things, obviously you're probably only going to strongly align with one side instead of the other ones and it could just cause you to get frustrated and ignore what the other people are saying. Right, if you don't like what they say, then like why would you lie? Yeah. For sure. Okay, good.

[00:05:26]>> [clears throat] >> The chart?

[00:05:34]Was there anything really surprising [clears throat] based on I thought Is there enough?

[00:05:42]A tad bit to the left. Somehow it's more left than Breitbart, right?

[00:05:46]Right. I thought the BBC was further left than that.

[00:05:49]>> [snorts] >> Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk was lower than anything.