Summary
Elon Musk and Twitter announced a $44 billion deal Monday for Musk to buy the company and take it over. The deal would be the largest to take a public company private in decades. It's also led to major concerns about how Musk, who is one of the world's richest men, will approach questions of extreme content and free speech. The Washington Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin joins Stephanie Sy to discuss.
Directions
: To watch the feature story, click the video above. Or skim the segments from the latest NewsHour by clicking on the image below, and choose the story that works best for your class. Then answer the questions below.
Five Facts
Discussion questions using the Journalist’s Five Ws plus an H:
- Who are some of the individuals or groups of people mentioned in the news summary?
- What stories are covered?
- Where do some of the stories take place?
- When did those stories occur?
- Why did the event(s) take place?
- How do you think the NewsHour’s producers decided which stories made it into the news summary?
Media literacy: Who else do you think should have been interviewed in the story you watched?
Focus Questions
See, Think, Wonder : What did you notice? What did the story make you think? What story would you want to find out more about? Where would you go to learn more?For More
For more on the deal and what it means for a public company to be taken private, see this article .
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