SLANT/SPIN/BIAS/OPINION BY KAYLEE PERKINS B.C. Teacher Strike.

CTV News Bias. The bias that CTV News has for the B.C. Strike is pretty much saying that regardless if someone is having trouble or not in a class, the student should have the same amount of time with the teacher as any other student.

Slant The slant that CTV has taken is that they are pretty much supporting the way that B.C. teachers are thinking about their students. Which is everyone needs the same attention. In a few lines in the article in uses the rhetorical device “imagery” to manipulate your opinion and to make you feel sympathetic. But that’s only my opinion.

Spin The spin that CTV news has taken can be interpreted in two major ways. One way is the way that I took it, being that they are being sympathetic towards her and what her needs as well as other teachers are. But the other way which other people may interpret is that she is using peoples emotions to pretty much pity her as well as others wants towards that school system.

My Opinion! My opinion on this article is that I personally agree with the teachers, and I am taking the positive side of how CTV has presented the article. I agree with this because it’s true, that classrooms should be smaller, I may not know about B.C. class rooms but I know here with some classes they could be smaller. Also with paying to the “average” kid. He/she may be understanding the content but you don’t know because you have to devote your time to the other kid who has social/mental disabilities.

Opposite side CBC The slant: CBC in this article “B.C. teachers' strike action issued for Wednesday” there really is no slant, CBC has been fairly neutral in the article just stating that facts.

Spin With how CBC is presenting the information it doesn’t feel like there is a spin within the information given. But it could get be the way that I am reading and looking at the article. To me it seems like they’ve been pretty straight forward and not giving sympathy towards anyone like CTV did.

CBC Bias Their bias that they have formed for themselves is just stating the facts that they were given while interviewing people, stating what the teachers wished for and what they were trying to do without getting emotionally involved in the situation.

Opinion! The rules that they have made for the kids and teachers of BC is pretty much exact to what we went through last year with bill 115. No teacher are suppose to watch the kids after or before school hours and so on. My opinion on this is the same as it was when it was happening to us, it’s just silly that they aren’t listening to the teachers or the kids. Kids need just as much as attention as the next, and they are taking that opportunity away from kids they may need to receive the help.

Thanks!