1.Describe the important of freedom of the press through history and to the present . You may discuss key figures and how they viewed freedom of the passed.
Freedom is important because people, especially journalists have the right to say and write what they feel and think . Some people are scared to speak up .The people that are scared to speak up are scared because of the government they live under. Some people that can speak up do not speak up. Others think that if they say something to help, the government will not do something to help. Sometimes it is true that the government does not help. Although, that does not mean that they will not help, but with our government being democratic it gives the people better rights, such as Freedom of Speech.
2.Imagine that you are a journalist for the New York Times and you find out that the president is stealing money.You decide to write a story to let the public know what is going on, but the government tells you that you cannot publish your story/article. How would this make you feel? How would you respond to the situation ?
3.If this would happen to me I would feel angry because the people the would be waiting for news .If they would not let me public I would do it anyways. The people would not be fair for people the need to know about the news.
4.As student journalists, what are some important steps you should take to ensure that you are making ethical decisions or choices ? For one step to do something ethical in decisions and choices is by making the right things. For example if accident and you are a reporter you need to know how to interview. Need to interview the correct people when I mean correct people is interview the people that were in the accident.
5."Information requires verification to be effective". What does the quote above mean?Do you agree or disagree with the statement? What the quote means that the information you have might not be false so,you could check you information.Yes,I agree with this quote. 6.What did you do today?What did you learn about working in teams,problem -solving,and being a journalist? What we did today is play a game called "Break Out EDU".What I learn about working in teams is that it makes are job more easy for us.
7.In what context could such revealing information be advantageous or disadvantageous to society? The advantageous of revealing information is that we will know what is happening around the world.The disadvantageous of revealing information is it can be harmful to people.
8.yes i would share the information.
9. Why are mistakes valuable? How are they both positive and negative? What do we gain and what do we lose? Mistakes are valuable because you can learn from your mistakes.In the negative way you might write something and publish and you did not check your writing