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Evaluating Bias: Fox News Article

Last updated almost 6 years ago

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Review the graphic below. Then answer the question that follow.

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In your own words, how would you define a fact versus an opinion?

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What are words or phrases that stick out to you as “charged”(filled with excitement, tension or emotion)?

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As you read through the article, what was the tone?

Serious: This tone in writing creates a level of suspense within the reader. It increases their focus because the concepts being offered are important.

Joyful: This tone in writing focuses on the positive emotions that are experienced in the moment of an action. If you eat something you like, then you feel joy. When you experience reciprocal love, you feel joy. Writers use this tone to create relationship-building experiences between their readers and their characters.

As you read through the article, what was the tone?

Sad: Sadness is a very real part of the human condition. In many ways, our saddest days define who we are as people. When incorporated as a tone in writing, the reader become sympathetic with the characters or the author and this empathy will keep them engaged with the narrative.

Humorous: Being funny does more than make people laugh. It also makes them begin to think about difficult concepts in a way that feels safe. This tone in writing is often intended to draw the reader into a story or narrative so they can engage with certain facts or opinions the author feels are important to share.

As you read through the article, what was the tone?

Pessimistic: When there’s a lot of bad stuff going on in the world, it can feel like that bad stuff will only get worse. That kind of tone would be an example of being pessimistic. Pessimism is not realism. Being pessimistic means having a belief that something will never get better, even if the facts may seem to indicate otherwise.

Optimistic: There’s a lot of bad stuff going on in the world today. Yet there is also a belief that the world can and will be a better place one day if we’re willing to work for it. This would be an example of an optimistic tone.

Which of the following are facts stated in this section?

A. "New York followed the  president's agencies' guidance."

B. "That's not my attempt to politicize it."

C. "... the governor should have allowed recovering coronavirus patinets to leave hospitals..."

D. "Cuomo downplays calls for federal probe into nursing home coronavirus deaths: 'ask President Trump.'"

Which of the following are opinions in this section?

"Bombshell report on NY nursing home policy overlooked in Gov. Cuomo's Daily Press Conference."

"CDC guidelines requre any newly admitted and readmitted resident with a COVID-19 case to be placed in a designated COVID-19 care unit..."

"New York - along with California and New Jersey went further and turned the guidance into state directives..."

"...the governor should have never allowed recovering coronavirus patients to leave hospitals and go back to their residential nursing homes to spread the contagious virus."

This is a fact: GOP lawmakers have requested a federal probe into Cuomo's policy to send recovering coronavirus patients back to nursing homes and related concerns that deaths at the facilities are being knowingly under-counted.

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This is an opinion: "The state estimates that more than 5,000 nursing home and longterm-care facility patients have died from coronavirus, but a new report says New York could be drastically under-reporting the deaths -- prompting Rep." 

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This is a fact: "... it contributed to the more than 5,800 nursing and adult care facility deaths in New York — more than in any other state — and that homes should have spoken up if it was a problem."

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This is an opinion: "...the March 25 order didn’t specify how homes could refuse, saying that 'no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the (nursing home) solely based' on confirmed or suspected COVID-19."

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This is an opinion: "...some nursing homes felt obligated and overwhelmed."

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