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WSC Curriculum Regional/Global Round Kit Amalia 2024 > Reheated Off the Presses > Flashcards

Reheated Off the Presses Flashcards

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Lincoln’s Assassination Article

What is the recreation of Lincoln’s assassination?

What does it depict?

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  • Depicts President Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth
  • Lincoln is watching a play in the ford theater, and we can see crows commonition and Lincoln slumped in a chair
  • He stabbed Henry Rathbone after shooting Lincoln, though he also planned to kill Andrew Johnson and William H. Seward
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Animated News Article

What are the animated recreations of news events?

Who did them, what are some examples, and what are some opinions on this

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  • Jimmy Lai has always been known for shaking things up, first with his bright newspaper Apple Daily which has serious things in a tabloid style
  • Then, Lai introduced Next Media creating digital recreations of events, with the YouTube channel now holding more than 1,000 different videos
  • These include videos of the killer whale attac, Gordon Brown’s bullying and the Tiger Woods car crash
  • However, these are criticized for being fictious
  • Taiwan’s National Communication’s Commission rejected Lai’s television license application because of the salacious nature of the clips
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Woods Crash Video

What is the summary of the Tiger Woods animated video?

What is the basic “plot”

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  • It first talks about how the police got a call from Tiger Wood’s wife, Elin, who was tending to him after he allegedly hit a fire hydrant then a tree
  • She was said to have broken the window with a golf club to get him out to safety
  • This does not add up, so then the video showed Woods and his wife having an argument over Wood’s scandalous affair, Woods driving away in madness
  • Then Elin hits the car with a golf club, Woods goes to turn around and then the accident happenes
  • It is done in a very crude manner, and is highly speculative
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Jones Video

What is Jones is Not Your Name?

What is it from and what is it about

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  • From the opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
  • A song about religion, specifically Islam, not choosing a “slave name” and continue suffering but choosing a suitable religious name
  • Opera but also contains some elements of jazz as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG4xP5wTaMU

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Prayer

What is Prayer?

What is it from and what does it depict

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  • From the musical Come From Away, about the people stranded in Gander after 9/11
  • The emotional climax on the national day of silence
  • Overlaying three different religous prayers for peace
  • Shows the diversity of people in Gander, but also the openness of the community created
  • Shows people of different religions coming together to pray and be open with each other, being respectful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OK7ts5Uy-w

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Eva’s Final Broadcast

What is Eva’s Final Broadcast?

Where is it from and what does it depict

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  • From Evita
  • About the life of Argentine political leader Eva Peron
  • Realizing she is about to die, Eva renounces her pursuit of being vice president
  • Dies from cancer
  • Swears her eternal love for the people of Argentina
  • Asks “don’t cry for me Argentina”
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Penguin Article

What was the recent peguin television scandal?

What was the scandal, how was it justified

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  • Crew on David Attenborough’s latest BBC series saved a group of penguins which had tumbled into a gully in a storm and couldn’t get out
  • The crew dug a low ramp to let the penguins escape from the gully
  • Nature film-makers are not supposed to intervene in the events they are filming, like veteran wildlife cameraman Doug Allan states
  • However, even Allan said that there was no problem there, it was not a hunting scenario, the penguins were not disturbed, simply given a way out
  • Philip Hoare gave the example of himself letting killer whales hunt sperm whales when his boat was between the two, but that was a hunting example instead
  • Documenting animals is never going to be 100% natural
  • Mike Gunton said that there was no danger for either party, the dynamics of the ecosystem were not harmed, and nothing was deprived of food, so it was ok
  • Attenborough claimed to have opposed the move saying that tragedy is a part of life, but Gunton said that Attenborough told him he also would have rescued the penguins
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Interview History Article

What is the early history of newspapers and reporting?

Approximate dates and brief early history

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  • American newspapers date to the late 1600s
  • Urban dailies hired reporters to gather news in the 1820s
  • Commercially minded penny papers in the 1830s made reporters a specialty of the press
  • Reporting was first mainly publishing official documents and no direct quotes
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Interview History Article

What is the early history of newspaper interviews?

Approximate dates, people involved, ideas surrounding, change over time

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  • Possibly James Gordon Bennett
  • Horace Greely
  • Largely unkown until 1860
  • Controversial decades later
  • Judged as very American
  • After President Andrew Johnson was interviewed it spread like wildfire
  • Thompson Cooper was the first to interview the Pope (Pius lX)
  • Later Europeans caught on, with Europeans leaders being interviewed by Americans
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Interview History Article:

Should a reporter take notes?

The ideas behind this, how it changed over time

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  • Joseph McCullagh never took notes until after the inteview
  • Notebooks were usually just seen in plays and not with real reporters
  • Notebooks can alarm the person who is being interviewed
  • Americans were used to note-taking earlier than Europeans were
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Interview History Article

Can an interviewee retract what he has said?

The basic idea and examples from the article

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  • Yes
  • William Jennings Bryan retracted a statement after the advice of his wife
  • Charles Dana never printed an interview without checking with everyone involved first
  • Edward Price Bell took getting the source’s authorization as the seal of approval
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Interview History Article

What are some controversies or tricks related to interviews?

Different examples from the article, any special examples or tricks

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  • Sources and interviewers can conspire against the audience
  • Chauncey Depey sometimes quoted a “reliable source”
  • Some reporters protected their subjects, making sure to not print things that would create deep controversy in the press
  • Politicians only spoke to reporters who supported them
  • Many reporters used clever tricks to get the information they want from the interviewee, such as when Joseph I. C. Clarke interviewed John Cardinal McCloskey
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Interview History Article

How did reporters change over time?

Examples from the end of the article

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  • Reporters wanted to achieve occupational identity
  • Shift to a more formal address
  • Chronological news and funnel news structure emerged
  • Known that reporters speak close to power
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Spreading News

How did people spread news before journalism?

A few different examples

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  • Word of mouth
  • Returning sailors and merchants spread news when they returned home
  • Ancient scribes recorded information
  • Boards could be used to post notices
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How Modern Journalism Is Changing

How is modern journalism changing?

5 different points

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  • There is an increase in fake news
  • Independent media is becoming more important
  • Social media influences the way people recieve and view news
  • A lot of news has now transferred to online platforms
  • Audio-based journalism is getting more popular
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Podcast Article

How did podcasts reshape society?

Swedish example, reasons

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  • Rural Swedish village on the Baltic Sea
  • People had taken of speech patterns of American intellectual interview podcasts
  • By listening to shows such as Lex Fridman, The Ezra Klein Show, Conversations with Tyler and The Tim Ferriss Show
  • Scandinavia has the highest rate of podcast penetration in the world
  • We’re not good at remembering facts we heard, but we are good at modeling tone, cadence and form of speech
  • Listening to podcasts in a parasocial interaction, an illusion that makes you listen and behave like you are in a social interaction, more so if the tone is informal
  • We internalize these patterns and use them as a latticework for our thought
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Podcast Article

What is the theory of the Public Sphere?

Theory, who created it, background and history

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  • Jürgen Habermas published The Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
  • A space separate from both private life and the state, where people engage in intellectual discussions about the society they live in
  • Did not exist in the Middle Ages, but in the Renaissance, it was cheaper to communicate by letter, so a group known as the Republic of Letters established a network spanning Europe of intellectual letters
  • Dutch scholar Erasmus was a key player, riding on horseback around Europe and writing an indecent amount of letters, pioneering the practice of reprinting letters
  • These letters would be read aloud, and his Latin was informal yet educated, so the public formed parasocial relationships with these letters, and began copying the speech patterns, building the public sphere
  • This crumpled around the writing of Habermas’ book, due to the mass media approach that no longer gave a window into the types of conversation and thought that drove intellectual progress
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Podcast Article

How are podcasts further shaping our world?

Popularity, different reasons, patterns

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  • Millions of people now listen to hours-long intellectual conversations
  • People are picking up new behaviours, like confronting hard question, and absorb the tone of successful people
  • They can also pick up dysfunctional patterns, like playing the devil’s advocate and getting worse at turn-taking while speaking
  • The French Revolution, the founding of the US, industrialization and the growth of science grew from the Republic of Letteres wanting to shape their society
  • The power of social learning is very strong, and there is a lot that can happen when people talk about intellectual topics, like nuclear fusion, AI alignment or Georgist economics
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Political Interview Article

Why are political interviews coming under scrutiny?

Changes, things that are problematic

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  • The political interview is facing questions on many fronts
  • Journalists and broadcasters have come under intense scrutiny for the way they probe and challenge elected politicians
  • Something felt different for the December 2019 election
  • Prominent politicians refused to appear on certain programmes or face traditional one-to-one encounters that were the hallmark of previous elections
  • Many prefer to take to social media to deliver their key messages and soundbites rather than sit in a studio for an extended period
  • Have broadcasters changed their approach?
  • Do interviewers believe a more combative approach is more effective or has that strayed into unpleasant exchanges that put off audiences?
  • Andrew Marr explores recent examples and discusses how the format should rise to the challenges it now faces
  • Former chancellor George Osborne, Newsnight’s editor Esme Wren, Sky News political editor Beth Rigby, the former Labour adviser James Mills, and the playwright James Graham.
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Army Article

What is the army poster?

Phrases on the poster

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  • Join the army
  • Like prison but more fighting
  • Free prosthetic limbs
  • Stress! Tedium! Misery!
  • Luggage may be destroyed
  • Darren Cullen
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Comic Journalism Article

What is Drawing the Times?

Basics

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  • Dutch platform
  • Addressed climate change, human rights, feminism, the Arab world
  • Inlcudes two meta-specials on graphic journalism: one explaining how it works, and one of the future of graphc journalism
  • Ongoing dossier with refugee stories
  • The comics are all in English
  • Artists include Olivier Kugler (Germany), Josh Neufeld (USA) and Victoria Lomasko (Russia)
  • The editorial board is all female
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Comic Journalism Article

What is Cartoon Movement?

Basics

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  • ‘The Internet’s #1 publishing platform for high quality political cartoons and comics journalism’
  • Every country is represented here, but there are no really long stories
  • The comic section is small but high quality, but there is no larger collection of political cartoons
  • The origins are also Dutch, founded to promote the political cartoon as a fundamental style of journalism
  • Early projects included works on the Haiti Earthquake and the Occupy movement
  • Actiely support free press and the rights of editorial cartoonists
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Comic Journalism Article

What is Graphic Journalism?

Basics

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  • Personal project of Lebanese-Swiss comics journalist David Chappatte, born in Pakistan
  • Draws for Le Temps, Neue Zurcher Zeitung and the International New York Times
  • Publishes both in English and French
  • Subjects he adresses include life on the death row, the Guatemalan war, the current situation in Gaza and Lebanon, the empty capitol of Myanmar and the memories of The Wall in Berlin
  • Not a joint venture like others, so it’s not varied, but the work is important and interesting
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Comic Journalism Article

What is The Nib?

Basics

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  • American online non-fiction comics publisher edited by Eleri Harris and Matt Bors
  • Delivers provocative social commentary in the form of cartoons and satire in the form of comics and non-fiction writing
  • Focus is mainly the American perspective and American news, like the GOP tax cuts, the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and how nationalism is re-inventing history
  • The content is heavily based on satirical traditions of The Daily Show and Colbert Report
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Comic Journalism Article

What is Symbolia?

Basics

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  • Not currently active, active for only 2 years
  • Developed for tablets
  • Published hundreds of pages of illustrated journalism
  • Things like the Affordable Care Act, terraforming on Mars and the future of skilled albour
  • Launched the careers of Jon Chad, Roxanne Palmer and Eva Hilhortst (initiated Drawing the Times
  • Founded by Erin Polgreen and Joyce Rice
  • Mostly a female venture
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Daily Show Article/Article II

What is The Daily Show?

Effect, what it was, methods, popularity

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  • Host Jon Stewart
  • Uses satire, hyperbole and fake news
  • First, opens with a program about top stories of the day
  • Following, fake political correspondent or commentator exaggerates the news
  • Concludes with a guest interview
  • Blend of comedy and news, ingoring both conventions, though it is not fake news, also not hard news
  • Immature and vulgar at some times, but also more focused as it went along
  • Social, political and media satirical commentary show, becoming a check on the accountability of the political process
  • Expanded in depth
  • Worked to break through the absurdity of the American political system
  • The show seeks to provide three checks
  • A check on the news media, a check on accountability and a check on the hypocricy of the process
  • The Daily Show team became an important part of the American democratic system
  • Jon Stewart stepped down after 16 years
  • Pew Research released a trust ranking of news organisations in the United States and the Daily Show is considered more trustworthy by the public than both Bloomberg and the Economist when it comes to political coverage
  • Topped by CNN, ABC News, Fox News, the New York Times and The Huffington Post
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John Oliver Article

Who is John Oliver?

His show, impact

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  • Last Week Tonight launched on HBO
  • People say he’s a journalist and that he’s doing investigative comedy, though he denies that he is a journalist
  • Niche media is popular, and though Oliver claims to just be trying to make people laugh, they need to be aware how audiences interpret their work
  • Journalism is different now
  • Oliver doesn’t get press credentials, he has no access, but he is still discussing public affairs in a really intelligent and fresh new way
  • Each Sunday the specialty comes out, and in segments, he guides viewers though the nuances of a variety of subjects, though these are leavened with a hefty dose of humour
  • Studies such as the one by University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication
  • Conan O’Brien, Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers’, Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert are people who do similar work
  • Everyone says that it is more important to laugh than to think, and these hosts also point out that they get info from other sources, like Oliver gets info from Frontline to Al Jazeera
  • These comedians also don’t want to be under pressure and to have freedom, but the old rules don’t really apply anymore, and these programs still do have functions
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24 Hour News

What is 24-hour news?

Basics

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  • 24-hour investigation and reporting of news, concomitant with fast-paced lifestyles
  • The vast news resources available in recent decades have increased competition for audience and advertiser attention
  • Prompting media providers to deliver the latest news in the most compelling manner in order to remain ahead of competitors
  • Television-, radio-, print-, online- and mobile app news media all have many suppliers that want to be relevant to their audiences and deliver news first
  • A complete news cycle consists of the media reporting on some event, followed by the media reporting on public and other reactions to the earlier reports
  • The advent of 24-hour cable and satellite television news channels and, in more recent times, of news sources on the World Wide Web (including blogs), considerably shortened this process.
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Pivot to Video

What is pivot to video?

Basics

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  • Phrase referring to the trend of media publishing companies cutting staff resources for written content in favor of short-form video content
  • Often published on third-party platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok)
  • Generally presented as a response to changes in social media traffic or to changes in the media consumption habits of younger audiences
  • In reality driven by advertising; only advertisers, not consumers, prefer video over text
  • Commentators have also noted a lack of transparency and accuracy in the viewership metrics reported by platforms such as Facebook
  • Following a scandal in which Facebook revealed it had artificially inflated numbers to its advertisers about how long viewers watched ads
  • Many journalists and industry analysts concluded that the shift to video was based on such misleading or inaccurate metrics
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iPhoneography

What is iPhoneography?

Basics

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  • This is the general term relating to images or videos taken with an iPhone
  • May suggest more informal or casual filming of events
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Explanatory Journalism

What is explanatory journalism?

Basics

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  • Explanatory journalism or explanatory reporting is a form of reporting that attempts to present ongoing news stories in a more accessible manner
  • Providing greater context than would be presented in traditional news sources
  • Often associated with the explanatory news website Vox
  • Has also been a Pulitzer Prize category
  • Other examples include The Upshot by The New York Times, Bloomberg Quicktake, The Conversation, and FiveThirtyEight
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Clickbait Article

What is clickbait?

Origins, why it’s problematic, and is it really that bad

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  • Derivative of sensational journalism
  • Presents little or no legitimate news while making use of eye-catching headlines to lure people into buying the newspaper
  • None of these articles have any substantial value, and it can affect one’s mental health by working with algorithms to make people keep clicking on the videos
  • Nothing more than a marketing gimmick
  • Mark Rober is a popular YouTuber who shows an eye-catching video title for a science experiment, only showing the result at the very end, though in this case the information is researched and interesting
  • Another example was the L’oreal ad for men, brining attention to the fact that women need more leadership roles, but pairing such a slogan with a makeup ad is eye-catching and interesting
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AI-Assisted Articles

What are AI-assisted articles?

Basics

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  • More news articles may be able to be authored more using AI
  • Content at Scale is one example of AI that is already writing blog posts, and may be able to write news articles as well
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Content Farms

What is a content farm?

Basics

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  • A content farm or content mill is a company that employs large numbers of freelance writers or uses automated tools
  • Generates a large amount of textual web content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by search engines
  • SEO (search engine optimization)
  • Main goal is to generate advertising revenue through attracting reader page views
  • Articles in content farms have been found to contain identical passages across several media sources, leading to questions about the site’s placing SEO goals over factual relevance
  • Proponents of the content farms claim that from a business perspective, traditional journalism is inefficient
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Branded Content

What is branded content?

Basics

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  • Content produced by an advertiser or content whose creation was funded by an advertiser
  • Branded content is designed to build awareness for a brand by associating it with content that shares its values
  • The content does not necessarily need to be a promotion for the brand, although it may still include product placement.
  • Unlike conventional forms of editorial content, branded content is generally funded entirely by a brand or corporation rather than a studio or a group of solely artistic producers
  • Examples of branded content have appeared in television, film, online content, video games, events, and other installations
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Both-Sideism

What is both-sideism?

Basics

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  • False balance is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports
  • Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side or may omit information that would establish one side’s claims as baseless
  • False balance is a bias which usually stems from an attempt to avoid bias and gives unsupported or dubious positions an illusion of respectability
  • Examples of false balance in reporting on science issues include the topics of human-caused climate change versus natural climate variability, the health effects of tobacco, the alleged relation between thiomersal and autism and evolution versus intelligent design
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Trump Opera Article

What is Trump on Show?

Who did it, what it is and what the plot is

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  • 4 hour Cantonese opera
  • The 4 day run at the thousand-seat Sunbeam Theatre fully sold out
  • Written and produced by feng-shui master Li Kui-ming
  • Before the show Li is standing outside in a golden sash for selfies, and a goodie bag is on the chair with lots of Li-themed things
  • Starts when Ivanka Trump moves to the White House and finds the Little Red book, and young Trump funds Nixon’s trip to China
  • There, Trump meets his twin brother in China who works at a Kaifeng Crematorium
  • Historical figures Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, and Jiang Qin are present in the opera
  • Mao and Nixon play a game of table tennis on stage (“Who’d think little ball has fate of glory.”)
  • After intermission we see Trump as president, only he is 72, which is based on numerology, the year Nixon and Mao met, and the age Mao was when he started the Cultural revolution
  • Loong Koon Tin plays Trump, his brother and Mao, and gives a very entertaining portrayal of the characters
  • The opera was very well recieved and many more young people attended than usual
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Trump Opera Article

What is the background of the art form of Trump on Show?

What is it, and what are some criticisms of the show related to this

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  • Chinese opera or xìqǔ
  • The audience is aging and the market is trying to find newer and younger audiences
  • There are many regional forms
  • In mainlandChina it is well supported, but in Hong Kong it was dissaproved of by the British colonial goverment and only recently developed funding for the art
  • Some say this opera will bring a new age for the art, but others say it is just sensationalism and not actual craft or substance
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Trump Opera Article 2

What makes Trump on Show entertaining?

Different examples why it is entertaining and engaging

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  • It is not a serious production about politics
  • It uses current political leaders to attract audiences
  • Loong Koon Tin (Trump, brother and Mao) tries to perfectly capture the figures in the most extreme way making it funny, and Roger Chan who plays Kim Jong did a lot of research to make it realistic enough for it to be funny
  • It is a fresh way of portraying live historical figures which got a good response, with people coming as far as from Shanghai to see it

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