Newsworthiness
What deems a story worthy of publishing in a newspaper or posting on a website? When studying news articles in the Language and Literature course, we will want to go beyond textual analysis from time to time, and question the validity and newsworthiness of stories. These questions are related to TOK, as they look at the bigger picture and are epistemological in natures (i.e. "how do we know?" questions). As we discuss...