Technology – good or bad?

• Read these two Internet news articles:

Daily Telegraph article on RAF bombing in Kosovo written at the time of the events:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001295827447373&rtmo=0xbbK0bq&atmo=YYYYYYYp&pg=/et/98/12/19/wirq219.html

BBC Online news article written afterwards:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_308000/308069.stm

• Make a list of the differences between the articles

• For each difference, suggest a reason for the difference – are all of the differences due to the articles having been written at different times?

• Write your own short article with the title: ‘Media change their tune over bombing in Kosovo’

• Copy one of the still pictures in the programme outline into presentation or desktop publishing software. Then display the picture with some labels showing the positive side of the technology and the not so positive side. Here is a suggestion to get you started: