{"id":1116,"date":"2016-11-16T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2016-11-16T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:49:17","slug":"remembering-a-trailblazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2016\/11\/16\/remembering-a-trailblazer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a Trailblazer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Studies extension for those who are interested:<\/p>\n<p>Read the below articles and\/or watch the remainder of the <strong>PBS NewsHour<\/strong> special we started watching about the passing of journalist Gwen Ifill.<\/p>\n<p>In your comp book, take notes (in words or pictures, or words and pictures) capturing interesting information, and write about the following questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why might it be important to have a woman of color as the anchor of one of the United States&#8217; leading news organizations?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it important for reporters to be impartial in their reporting? &nbsp;Can you think of examples of media bias in the materials we have explored this term?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Videos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0faQwII4bk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAWnXq3wNfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/14\/business\/media\/gwen-ifill-dies.html\">Gwen Ifill, Political Reporter and Co-Anchor of \u2018PBS NewsHour,\u2019 Dies at 61<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/15\/opinion\/the-life-and-example-of-gwen-ifill.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;_r=0\">The Life and Example of Gwen Ifill<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/15\/opinion\/the-grace-of-gwen-ifill.html\">The Grace of Gwen Ifill<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Studies extension for those who are interested: Read the below articles and\/or watch the remainder of the PBS NewsHour special we started watching about the passing of journalist Gwen Ifill. In your comp book, take notes (in words or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2016\/11\/16\/remembering-a-trailblazer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}