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To help you begin reading, thinking, and writing about culture, Chapter 1 of Reading Culture invites you to participate in a study of the news. The book provides information that helps define what is meant by "reporting the news," and it offers several activities for learning firsthand about the news: observing, interviewing, and reading about a range of reactions to a phenomenon. This Companion Website offers you a chance to move the study in a few different directions. The first "Checking Out the Web" activity grows from the book, as you explore the Web site of one specific news outlet and compare it with the television version. The second Web activity provides a deeper look at what "covering the news" means, and the third activity provides historical perspective. The fourth activity, examining freedom of information, places the debate in a broader context. The fifth activity returns to the issue of distinguishing between types of news by comparing continuous coverage with other kinds of programming. "Visual Culture" offers sites to explore on news images, journalists and pop culture, and museum collections. The "Mining the Archives" section contains a more open-ended glimpse at the broader scope and implications of various venues that relate to news.
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