Exercise 85E Identifying the advantages/disadvantages of young people’s news sources
Key Skills Success criteria
I can give some advantages and disadvantages of young people’s news sources.
A US study found the most trusted sources of information for teenagers were: ● Trusted adults ● Blogs ● Social media ● Humorous current aff airs programmes.
They liked these because they explained why things were good or bad and they were not objective. Objective means that you look at things from a neutral point of view and do not say whether they are good or bad. Subjective is when you have your own view, often based on feelings or emotions.
Fill in the grid below: Example Trusted adults
Advantage of this source
Disadvantage of this source
Blogs
Social media
Humorous current aff airs programme
1. Are these sources similar to your sources of news?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. If not, what are your news sources?