Let's chat with Dennis Prager. Today and maybe tomorrow, we'll listen, pause, talk and listen some more. It relates directly to chapter 11. I think you'll like this, especially because there is no homework!
By the way, I'm thinking you might like to create a presentation, maybe a blog, not just a powerpoint and share your topic via Zoom with us for 15 or 20 minutes instead of doing an essay. Let me know what you think.
By the way, I'm thinking you might like to create a presentation, maybe a blog, not just a powerpoint and share your topic via Zoom with us for 15 or 20 minutes instead of doing an essay. Let me know what you think.
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Chapter 11 – The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV
I think that the main point Goldberg is making is that the media will focus on one topic and not say what needs to be said. Two of his strongest examples I think can be grouped into one cause and effect. The cause is the media telling the public that both parents working is a good thing and helps the child in the long run. The effect is American children getting worse grades than Asian children because they do not have a mom or a dad to stay at home with them and help them with homework. Also, the amount of latch key kids that end up suffering because of the media’s lies. The media was the cause of the problem, and they hid the effect causing more of these situations to arise allowing them to be the cause again. I think that the “liberal bias” is very serious in the cause and effect examples that he shows. I think that the public should know about why their kids are failing school and know the truth. I think that the “liberal bias” in how the media will not say what needs to be said because the think that it will either upset their viewers or that it will not line up with their agenda. I think that the public needs to be informed about how the media will take out important pieces of information just for their own uses. Some consequences of not knowing the truth especially in this situation is that parents will watch their kids fall apart and not be concerned because it’s just what is happening to everyone else. Parents need to know that what is happening to their kids is not normal and it can be fixed. I think that parents need to know that they need to support their children.
I think this chapter is speaking about what really the news media thinks parents should be doing with their children. I believe that they are really telling the world how parents should be parenting, and how they should be working while their kids are at home because in the long run it will benefit them and their family. I believe this because when the media portrays one image and refuses to tell the facts, parents look at the facts given and base their parenting on them. This not only really ruins a family but causes damage to children and the way they act and behave. This will cost America damage because of the facts they are restraining from them. The crime rates, sex abuse, and drug intake will all increase, and this will be the reason. The media is really damaging the economy and the reality of the future of America, because these children that are left at home alone will fall into trouble and number of crimes will increase as a result. All this because they want it to not be confidential and to be politically correct. It is really quite sad, because the numbers aren’t lying to us. We see the numbers plain as day, but the media wouldn’t look out for America and tell them that this is what will happen. Mother’s need to stay home with their children and teach them properly. The liberal bias is quite serious because they don’t want to tell America what is happening because it is politically incorrect to tell the mothers to stay home and BE MOTHERS. Although, this will all come back and kick them in the butt because we can really blame them for hiding information from us and not coming forward and being honest with the country, they “so greatly care for.” I really don’t understand why they call themselves the media because the media is what is happening in the world, and they aren’t doing their job and telling us what really is happening in the world.
My response is on the ch 11 post further down
Josh Zwicker said...
Chapter 11 is about an important story the news never covers. It is about working moms who would rather go to work than stay at home with the kids. Therefore, these kids are thrown in daycare for half their life to be raised by someone who isn’t even their family. In this chapter, Mr. Goldberg talks about how this can be detrimental to the development of children, and also how modern-day feminism is pushing more women to join the workforce.
Mr. Goldberg has many statistics in this chapter, including some that kids who are in daycare are more likely to have behavior issues like temper, talk too much, mean, defiant, and rebellious. These are for children who are left in daycare five days a week while both their parents work. What the news will show us that we need more daycares, or better daycares and improved daycares. But there are a series of studies showing that no matter how goo the daycare is, the negative effects on the children remain dormant.
Another statistic that Mr. Goldberg brought up is about health. A study was shown that kids who go to daycare were less likely to develop asthma, due to the illnesses and viruses they are exposed to at a young age where they can gain immunity. Mr. Goldberg through this stat in the garbage by showing another statistic that as the number of children who go to daycare increase, so do cases of asthma. But you can guess which one was covered by the media, hint – it wasn’t the one against daycare.
This relates to targeting men because, in the past, it has been the role of the man to go out and work for the paycheck. Now, it might not be just about the man and the woman is bringing in a paycheck. This might feel dethroning to a man and take him out of the position as the man of the family.
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