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Enhancement of Young Students' News Literacy Education: The Feasible Way to Improve Taiwan's Worse News Quality
According to Yu-ling Lin, the author of the essay, it is possible that the cultivation of the young students’ critical thinking through enhancing news literacy education is able to urge the improvement of present Taiwan’s news quality. He thinks that the currently over-sensational and overstating news reports resulting in the worse quality of news need to be changed by the audience supervision. And the appropriate supervision has to have the enhancement of news literacy education which is better to start with the young students. In the investigation to prove his discourse, he takes seven young students as subjects to be encouraged and instructed not only to criticize the objectivity of the news but also to reflect themselves what influence of the news on them after watching the news animation about school bullying. The result is that they admit that they have had the experience of bullying and find out the effect of the news on the way they think one thing or event. After receiving the news literacy education, they even post the instruction of that on Facebook Page to let more people enable to learn it. With this experiment, the essay advocates that the teaching and practice of news literacy education on young students seems to be the feasible way to improve Taiwan’s worse news quality.
Indeed, Taiwan’s news is often filled with the exaggerated and biased reporting context to appeal more Taiwan’s viewers who solely accept the information the news provides but lack the deep thinking on the reports. When we watch the televised news, we often bear the curiosity and amusement for the report instead of doubting its objectivity with the critical thinking, and let alone young students. Like the students watching the news animation about school bullying in the essay, if they were not taught the right news literacy, they might have thought the report entertaining due to the exaggerated simulate animation. Furthermore, they might have deemed that the young bullying behaviors is not serious and has not to be restrained because the news animation lacks the properly condemnation on the violence of the bullying ones. Even if the National Communications Commission (NCC) regulates the news and promotes the supervision of the news by the audience, most of the present televised news about violence is still without self-control and moderate quality. Thus, we need to supervise the news more actively to propel the change of the news, and teachers as well as parents should teach the young about the proper news literacy education by being good models. In this way, the enhancement of news literacy education in the young students is achievable and the improvement of the news quality is realizable.

Yu-ling Lin (2011).  News Literacy Education in the Digital Age: A Model of Critical News Literacy, Retrieved January, 2012, from National Chiao Tung University, Journal of Cyber Culture and Information Society Website: http://ccis.nctu.edu.tw/issueArticle.asp?P_No=27&CA_ID=336