A Focus on Fake News
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Awash in Conspiracy Theories
*Updated June 7, 2018 “Conspiracy theory” has been the media’s preferred description of President Trump’s dubbing the FBI’s use of an informant within his political campaign as “spygate.” To bolster their analysis, the media has been offering a highlight reel of the president’s prior comments on unverified information. Believing they’ve identified a pattern, CNN writes,…
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Is a School Shooting Coming to Your Community?
Listening to the top of the hour news update while driving, I was appalled by a soundbite addressing how sometimes students of the past hid under their desks to prepare for a nuclear attack, but today’s students are always hiding under their desks because they are always under attack. The speaker claimed students are being…
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Steele Dossier Timeline – Just the Facts
Immense confusion surrounds the development and release of the Steele Dossier. What is it? What does it allege? How did the government get involved? And how did it become public? …
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Did the NFL Rig the Patriots vs. Jaguars Game?
Once more, the New England Patriots made history on January 21 when they secured their eighth AFC Championship in 16 years after defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars in a fourth-quarter comeback. Despite an injury to his throwing hand, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady delivered 138 passing yards, two touchdowns, and a 136.3 passer rating in the fourth…
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Really? Fake News Coverage of the President’s Fake News Awards
“Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ were a Huge Flop,” blared a Washington Post headline. According to the article, this is because many who tried to access the website where the President’s picks were listed were met with an error message. Also, the Post concluded that the President had “no plan,” which resulted in his choosing reports…
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Why the Fake News Awards Are Not a Joke, Revenge, or Irrelevant
It is no secret that President Trump and the media have an antagonistic relationship. According to PBS News Hour, “In President Trump’s first year in office, he tweeted about fake news and fake media 174 times. That is an average of once every two days.”[1] And now the President has published his “fake news awards,”–a…
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What Is Meant by “Fake News”?
Having experienced an unprecedented usage increase of 365% since 2016, “fake news” is the Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 word of the year.[1] Although officially defined as “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting,”[2] fake news has come to mean many things in the year 2017. Headlines such as “Death Row Inmate…
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Why a Quick Fix for Mass Shootings Won’t Work
Public mass shootings incite waves of grief, fear, and outrage that lead to a strong desire to do something. Inevitably, this leads to a national debate regarding gun control. Z. Byron Wolf reports, “The details don’t really matter when it comes to mass shootings in the current political climate. The script now is set —…
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