Questions

1. Watch Video #1: Kyle Kashuv, 16 year old junior from Stoneman Douglas said, "I think the proper question is how come the media isn’t representing people like Andrew Pollack and Ryan Petty who were doing the legislative work that is enacting change like we’ve seen...who lost someone very close to them...and even though they’re Republicans and conservative...they’ve reached across the aisle…these are the people who need to be blasted across the headlines every day..." Does he make a reasonable assertion?

2. Watch Video #2: Hunter Pollack, the brother of Meadow Pollack, who was shot and killed in the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, says he was denied an opportunity to speak at the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC. Pollack’s father Andrew said they tried for two days to work with organizers for a chance to speak at the march but that organizers denied the request. “At first they told him, yes, then it turned to no,” Pollack said. “They claimed no time.”
Hunter said, "I was going to give a speech about Meadow and how devastated I am and how we need to make change, but they won’t allow me to put my voice out. I feel that they don’t really care about the victims’ families. If they did, they would have let me speak, and they didn’t. I don’t know what this is about." How important should it have been for the March for our Lives attendees to hear Meadow's brother speak?

3. Watch Video #3: CBS' Face the Nation did interview Kyle Kashuv. Consider 3 of the points he made - are these issues that should enter into the national debate? What responsibility does the media have to allow Kyle's voice to be heard?

• "I have a differing point of view, but what really concerned me was that how come I wasn't invited to speak at the march because, as Americans, we all have different points of views and it's important to represent them all equally."
• "I agree with them [students marching] completely, that this cannot happen ever again. But I differ with them on what policy needs to be made."
• "We have to make sure that the laws that we're enacting don't hurt America on a national scale. And that's why I think that we have to sit down with all members of this issue, OK, sit down with me and David Hogg or Cameron Kasky and debate this and find a common middle ground because that's the only way that we're going to protect the American people."

4. Kyle and the Pollacks say that making schools safe shouldn’t be focused on enacting new gun control laws.  What responsibility does the media have to present their point of view?