Last Thursday our class started with a discussion about thanksgiving. In fact M. Noble told us about the difficulties to find some adapted food in France during those days.
Then we saw how it is possible to manipulate information. For this part we read an article entitled Lost in Transmission. In this text we saw that a piece of information is most of the time distorted between the event and the reader. In a first time the reporter can’t see everything. So he has to generalize some facts not always representative of the reality. Then when he writes he inevitably give his mind in his text. So information can never be really exact.
To illustrate this we saw two different points of view by comparing two articles about a same topic: the implication of Iran in the nuclear. One was from The Jerusalem Post and the other from Al Jazeera. No one was lying but they related different parts of this conflict with different words. And those kinds of differences were enough to reveal some different points of view. And we saw that the second article from the Jerusalem Post was more objective.
To finish you watched the beginning of the movie Food Inc. And we took some memorable phrases and numbers which describe the American way to eat. This movie is a kind of denunciation of the new way to eat in the USA.
See you on Thursday
Tanneguy
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