The Justice Game ': Bowling For Columbine'
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Telling The Truth
Texts:
The Justice Game (book)
Bowling for Columbine (film)
The Simpsons – Homer Badman (TV episode)??
Trials notes: • Further talk about Robertson’s civil rights agenda • Write in a way appropriate to text type – don’t rely on essay! If it’s a speech, address the audience often.
General course notes: • All representations are tainted by perspective, bias, background, author’s intention, etc. • Truth cannot be represented with 100% accuracy. Usually only a selection of reality is represented, full context cannot be represented.
The Justice Game (1998)
Author: Geoffrey Robertson
Type: Non-fiction text (Not a novel)
General Notes: • Book is aimed at a general …show more content…
The charge was based on the “1956 Sexual Offenses Act”, which according to Robertson, was designed to outlaw public masturbation. This was, according to Robertson, a loophole, as the attorney-general would not prosecute for obscenity. The Case ended when Mr. Graham Ross-Cornes, Whitehouse’s solicitor and witness, could not prove he saw an erect penis, as he was sitting in the back row of the theater, some 90 yards away • Robertson adopts a smug and cynical tone throughout the chapter to discredit Whitehouse and her team. • He highlights the ignorance of those involved (“girdled her loins for a battle against a play she had not seen in a theater she had never attended”, “The prosecution intended the jury to know nothing about the play other than one stage direction”) • Does not make mention of whether or not there was in fact a penis present, this is carefully avoided by Robertson – also explores theme of “what is truth in court” • Does not consider that Whitehouse may have also had public support, only represents her as a backwards
Telling The Truth
Texts:
The Justice Game (book)
Bowling for Columbine (film)
The Simpsons – Homer Badman (TV episode)??
Trials notes: • Further talk about Robertson’s civil rights agenda • Write in a way appropriate to text type – don’t rely on essay! If it’s a speech, address the audience often.
General course notes: • All representations are tainted by perspective, bias, background, author’s intention, etc. • Truth cannot be represented with 100% accuracy. Usually only a selection of reality is represented, full context cannot be represented.
The Justice Game (1998)
Author: Geoffrey Robertson
Type: Non-fiction text (Not a novel)
General Notes: • Book is aimed at a general …show more content…
The charge was based on the “1956 Sexual Offenses Act”, which according to Robertson, was designed to outlaw public masturbation. This was, according to Robertson, a loophole, as the attorney-general would not prosecute for obscenity. The Case ended when Mr. Graham Ross-Cornes, Whitehouse’s solicitor and witness, could not prove he saw an erect penis, as he was sitting in the back row of the theater, some 90 yards away • Robertson adopts a smug and cynical tone throughout the chapter to discredit Whitehouse and her team. • He highlights the ignorance of those involved (“girdled her loins for a battle against a play she had not seen in a theater she had never attended”, “The prosecution intended the jury to know nothing about the play other than one stage direction”) • Does not make mention of whether or not there was in fact a penis present, this is carefully avoided by Robertson – also explores theme of “what is truth in court” • Does not consider that Whitehouse may have also had public support, only represents her as a backwards