The Observation Deck

Danielle Masters wrote:What method are you opposed to? That is it short and catchy? The use of animation?

Danielle Masters wrote:It's a good talking piece. It's good for our kids to be presented with information of all kinds. Parents need to talk with their kids, find out what they are being taught. No matter what you political idealization is talking to your kids about what they are learning and what their thoughts are is an important part of being a good parent.

Roy Pitchford wrote:They could have presented it to kids without half-truths, exaggerations and lies.

We wrote about Music-Rules! and similar industry propaganda efforts in May, outlining some of their falsehoods and biases. For instance, the RIAA tells kids, "Never copy someone else's creative work without permission from the copyright holder" — omitting the important right to make creative fair use of existing content. It also coins a misleading term, "songlifting," (which the curriculum says is "just as bad as shoplifting"). Perhaps most disturbing of all given that the curriculum is supposed to be adopted by schools, it teaches kids bad math as part of its lessons on peer to peer file-sharing.

Danielle Masters wrote:Anything can be considered a "half-truth" or an "exaggeration" depending on what facts you are relying on and whether you lean left or right. Like I said it's a good discussion piece. No video or book or whatever is going to be perfect, everyone has a bias.

Danielle Masters wrote:I'm sure we can both agree that people get lazy. They see one blurb and like it and assume it's all perfectly true but we need to be responsible and do our own research.

Jim DeVito wrote:

Roy Pitchford wrote:They could have presented it to kids without half-truths, exaggerations and lies.