faith-in-the-media-handout.doc

1. We started with some questions regarding the posted pictures of Saddam Hussein’s dead sons. Was it ethical for the media to share these photos?
2. Once done that discussion, groups formed and chose a country from a given list and were to research the media in the country to find out how much control the government has over media there. For example, one group found a list of the top ten most censored countries, their country of Cuba being listed as the seventh most censored. Do citizens of these countries know they are censored and how much trust do they have in the media they can access. Students seemed quite interested and involved in their searches.

Also, on a side note, China has restrictions of what people can even access on the internet. Google is accessible from China but with certain agreements made with the government to control certain information or pictures. Look up images of Tiananmen Square on google.ca and compare it to the same search on google.cn (the Chinese access). The pictures are quite different.