{"id":1016,"date":"2018-10-02T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2018-10-02T01:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:04:46","slug":"news-literacy-students-in-mock-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/news-literacy-students-in-mock-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"News Literacy Students in Mock Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail alignright wp-image-1023\" src=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1.jpeg\" alt=\"News literacy students hold a mock trial\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-333x250.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-512x384.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-145x109.jpeg 145w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-307x230.jpeg 307w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-613x460.jpeg 613w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-533x400.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-385x289.jpeg 385w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-360x270.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/V4ix1jqcSo625PnAMUmtlSw-1-370x278.jpeg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>Macaulay honors students in Prof. Sissel McCarthy\u2019s News Literacy class (shown in photo below) took part in a mock trial last week charging <em>The New York Times<\/em> with treason for publishing the Edward Snowden documents.<\/p>\n<p>Students prepared for the trial by researching arguments for both the prosecution and defense and found out the day of the trial which side they would represent. Each side had 15 minutes to present their case while three students in the class served on the jury and evaluated all the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you\u2019re interested in the verdict, after a strong showing by both sides, the jury unanimously agreed <em>The New York Times<\/em> was not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macaulay honors students in Prof. Sissel McCarthy\u2019s News Literacy class (shown in photo below) took part in a mock trial last week charging The New York Times with treason for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage_news","category-journalism-program-news","tag-news-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}