When a Broad Social Issue - Individual Rights, Environmental Pollution

question 24

Essay

When a broad social issue - individual rights, environmental pollution, or child custody - intrudes into our lives and moves from the abstract to the personal, we must consider our opinions of them as complex issues through background knowledge and integrated thinking and language abilities.Do you think most people do this? Or are they more likely to take their opinions from the media? Why or why not? What dangers do you think the media pose as a source of unexamined personal opinions?

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