Breaking the News: What's Real, What's Not, and Why the Difference Matters [9781426338885]

Overview

In this timely and relevant title, National Geographic Kids shines a light on the history of news to reveal where we started, how far we've come, and the serious impact that misinterpretation and misinformation can have on the world.

Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways to tell interesting stories, but how much of it is news ... and how much is just noise? This refreshing and up-to-date media literacy book gives kids the tools they need to distinguish what is fact from what is fiction so that they can make smart choices about what to believe.

Topics cover a broad range, from defining freedom of speech, the journalists' code of ethics, the dangers of propaganda, and the future of news.

Packed with profiles of influential journalists, fun facts, and iconic photographs, this ultimate guide to the information age will get kids thinking about their relationship and responsibility to media.

The book, Breaking the News: What's Real, What's Not, and Why the Difference Matters [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781426338885 in Hardcover by Robin Terry Brown may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.