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News can often be perceived as always truthful. I mean who would have any reason or the heart to lie about this information, anyways?
We are conditioned to always believe the news because of this. By believing news from various news sources and articles we can easily be confused due to lacking or differing information that is shared.
As stated in the article about news article titles, they are created by robots.
These robots create "interesting" article titles, to say the least, to attract more attention.
Anyways, headlines are what attracts immediate attention from viewers and makes them interested in reading the story following.
Stated in the article "Headlines that Suck and What You Can Learn From Them" there are a plethora of reasons why headlines are important, and probably why robots are designed to create them from now on.
The reasons range from being too short, too long, too ridiculous, too manipulative, or too spammy.
Having robots to create headlines make it easier to avoid these issues and just do what a headline is supposed to do, which is to catch the reader's attention.
As always it is important to stay true to the ethical code of journalism.
Staying true to this code will makes news more reliable.
One of the worldwide known ethical rules is to post truthful content, even if it does not make as interesting of a story.
Keeping up with these ethical rules will make the news more reliable to the general public, which is especially important now with the recent lack of trust in any and all news stations.
Avoiding fake news can be easily related to avoiding sharing content that may be seen as more interesting rather than truthful. This can be an issue when journalists want their content and articles to be seen and heard rather than other reporters.
According to ConnectSafely.org there are numerous ways to avoid sharing fake news, which they share with the general public to be more educated and promote researching on their own time as well as finding reputable sources to learn from.
As stated in the article, fakes news and interesting content spreads faster on social media than the truth spreads in any and all online platforms. It is important to know how to spot fake news and find more trustworthy sources or content.
As seen below, fake news is easily considered juicy gossip that people want to talk about. Something like Michelle Obama deleting Hillary Clinton from Twitter is going to be more popularly discussed rather than the good that both women do or have down for our country as First Ladies.
How do you know if the talking heads are lying? Look at their lips. If their lips are moving, these talking heads are lying....
ReplyDeleteRossen Vassilev Jr.
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It is sometimes hard to tell the fake news from the real news. And, it seems the more crazy the news is, the quicker it spreads within social media I think we need to always be wary and verify, verify, verify! Trish Tierney (tt318700.edu)
ReplyDeleteIt was not until this course my eyes were opened to all the fake news that is out there. Of course I knew I could not believe everything but since I have been more diligent in checking sources and realized some of the news I may have been relying on was not as reliable as I would have hoped. This will continue to be a problem that we must work on!
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