Vocabulary:
Press/Media
The main means of mass communication (especially television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet) regarded collectively.
Bias
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Extension Activities:
Make a character sketch of Thomas Tibbles & George Crook.
*Consider Crook’s role in Cheyenne Outbreak of January 1879.
*Consider traits about Chief Standing Bear that make many come to his aid.
Write your own headline and a brief summary of the story Tibbles might have published.
Write a journal entry from General Crook describing his decision to not follow orders, but to take the story to Tibbles.
Investigate a current worldly issue that is similar to this situation and develop a modern-day news report of that event.