![]() ![]() This, too, is false-the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” At this point, one congressman yelled out, “You lie!” Clearly, this congressman did not have a very high opinion of either the health care reform plan or the president. In this speech, President Obama responded to several rumors about the plan, including the claim “that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. A clash of fact versus opinion happened on September 9, 2010, during President Obama’s nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress outlining his health care reform plan. In American politics, the issue of health care reform is heavily laden with both opinions and facts, and it is extremely difficult to sort some of them out. Part of critical listening is learning to separate opinions from facts, and this works two ways: critical listeners are aware of whether a speaker is delivering a factual message or a message based on opinion, and they are also aware of the interplay between their own opinions and facts as they listen to messages. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with saying, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts” (Wikiquote). Recognizing the Difference between Facts and Opinions For example, a city treasurer giving a budget presentation might use very large words and technical jargon, which make it difficult for listeners to understand the proposed budget and ask probing questions. Unfortunately, some speakers may make their messages intentionally complex to avoid critical scrutiny. Critical listening can be particularly difficult when the message is complex. Problems occur when messages are repeated to others who have not yet developed the skills to discern the difference between a valid message and a mistaken one. Some people never learn this skill instead, they take every message at face value even when those messages are in conflict with their knowledge. Critical listening can be learned with practice but is not necessarily easy to do. ![]() Part of being a good listener is to learn when to use caution in evaluating the messages we hear.Ĭritical listening in this context means using careful, systematic thinking and reasoning to see whether a message makes sense in light of factual evidence. ![]() Nor is it always clear which messages are intended to help the listener and which ones are merely self-serving for the speaker. You know it’s not all the same, but it isn’t always clear how to separate the truth from the messages that are misleading or even blatantly false. You receive messages conveying academic information, institutional rules, instructions, and warnings you also receive messages through political discourse, advertisements, gossip, jokes, song lyrics, text messages, invitations, web links, and all other manner of communication. Kizzzbeth – Good Listener – CC BY-SA 2.0.Īs a student, you are exposed to many kinds of messages. ![]()
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