All persons have equal rights to visit any shop in a
marketplace. Do you think this is true of shops with
expensive products? Explain with examples.
As a class project, decide to focus on a particular news
topic and cut out stories from different newspapers on
this. Also watch the coverage of this topic on TV news.
Compare two newspapers and write down the similarity
and differences in their reports. It might help to ask the
following questions
a. What information is this article providing?
b. What information is it leaving out?
c. From whose point of view is the article being written?
d. Whose point of view is being left out and why?
You have read about the ways in which the media sets
the agenda. What kind of effect does this have in a
democracy? Provide two examples to support your point
of view.
Can you give this diagram a title? What do you understand
about the link between media and big business from this
diagram?
Can you describe two methods of struggle that the
womens movement used to raise issues? If you had to
organise a struggle against stereotypes, about what
women can or cannot do, what method would you employ
from the ones that you have read about? Why would you
choose this particular method?
Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested
in getting an education. Re-read the last paragraph on page
62 and explain why this statement is not true.