Use, Evaluate, and Treat Critically Information Received From the Mass Media


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How the Media Persuade: Verbally and Visually
Now that you have a better understanding of political cartoons here are two more cartoons related to the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

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1. Is the bias of the Three-Mile Island Cartoon

Pro-nuclear power
Anti-nuclear power

2. What is the metaphor established in the cartoon?

Nuclear power is going to kill the U.S.
Nuclear power, through frightening, is at the heart of US economic development.
Nuclear power is making the US crazy?

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3. Is the bias of the Chernobyl cartoon

Pro-Soviet Union
Anti-Soviet Union

4. What is the metaphor established in the Chernobyl cartoon?

Nuclear power will "ring in" a new age of economic development.
Nuclear power is sounding the death knell for countries who use it.
Nuclear power is sounding the alarm to use it cautiously.