Critical view of the media- reviewing an editorial

Sourced from: The Herald Sun website.
Topic: Dumbing down in class is unacceptable
Date printed: 13-8-08 @ 12:00am


The issues raised are:
- Students are “dumbing down”.
- There is no ambition in the youth to work in a rewarding job these days.
- This generation has become the most pampered.
- Not being educated for a job or no job vacancies in the specific area chosen

The techniques used by the media:

Making a pun out of Ms. Gillard’s words, i.e. “…if the statistics she has quoted are correct the answer lies within the education system itself….”

Suggesting what Ms. Gillard should do, i.e. “Ms. Gillard must look not only at standards of education, but to what end young Australians are being educated.”

Adding the medias own straight forward opinion on the matter, i.e. “Engaging with students and teaching the next working generation to a uniformly high level is vital to Australia's future.”

Debating whether Gillard is right or there is another reason to the matter, “But, while ambition and wanting to work in a rewarding job may be lacking in some young people, is it because they have not been educated for the job they want or that these jobs do not exist?”

To read the full artical where this content was sourced from:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24172020-24218,00.html