Friday, January 11. 2019

Today's schedule is DCBA

A & D Blocks Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for another day to work on your Inquiry Project. Today we'll talk about presentation formats. Explore the different formats you could use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story. Decide on a format for your end product by thinking about your interests and strengths, and what might be the most effective means of communicating the information that you have gathered and analysed. Analyse each format to determine which is the best fit for your Geo-Inquiry Story. Now...what do you need to do? How do you plan to go about doing it? When do you plan on getting it done.  Don't forget this is an active research project and I expect you'll need to go out into the community to interview people so who do you need to talk to and when will you talk with them? So yeah...it's the day where you really need to get going because including today there's only 10 classes remaining in the semester.

B Block Criminology - Today we finish the Casey Anthony trial coverage from 2011 in the USA.  HLN's Nancy Grace covered the Casey Anthony trial heavily in 2011. Grace had her own trial of Casey Anthony in the media. Here is a sampling of her coverage



After the verdict here's what she had to say - which further shaped the public's opinion of Casey Anthony even after she was found not guilty by a jury of her peers


Now, here's what the media had to say about the media covering the Casey Anthony trial



And here's what CBC had to discuss about Nancy Grace on the show Q


Does the trial have a longer lasting impact on the USA or was it just 15 minutes of fame and a distraction from mundane daily life? Because of her actions, Nancy Grace has been spoofed on SNL and MadTV to name just two...





HBO had a television series called The Newsroom and they had an amazing bit on Nancy Grace's coverage of Tot Mom...



CNN did a retrospective piece on the trial here

Whew...so in the end here's my last question for you to answer:

1. Who would you want deciding your guilt or innocence? A jury of your peers or CNN and Nancy Grace? Regardless of your opinion of Casey Anthony is it possible for her to escape the negative label of "Tot Mom" and will she ever be able to avoid the horrible mother image presented by CNN and Nancy Grace?