To resist fake news is a challenging thing but it
has to be done. One way that would be easy is to question everything that is in
the news. This would mean that the article that you just read about whatever,
you should look it up and see if the information the news gave you is correct.
This requires more work but it also helps with hearing from other source
because it is most likely that you'll find more information that was not given
in the article.
The Washington post did a review on The
Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI’ by Betty Medsger.
This book is about anti-war activists going against the FBI because they
believed that they were manipulating the activist groups during the time of the
Vietnam War. This is an example of questioning authority and the news. Not condoning
burglarizing the media to learn the truth but using this an example of how
these activists broke into the FBI and found proof that they were manipulating
the activists.
Another way to resist fake news is to go to only a
reputable news organization but with any news outdate that you go to will have
some bias that's why it's also important to go to more than one reputable
organization. There is valuable information in almost every news report
but one can't get to attached to one point of view and have an unobstructed
view so that there is little bias in the end.
It's hard to avoid fake news but it also serves a
purpose that gives an out of the box view if it's about the something the
author researched and didn't just pull it out of the air.
No fooling, fake news is hard to resist but something has to be done about it. There are few ways that people can resist fake news, first people need to visit more reliable websites and reputable news organization, as well as looking up information. I like your structure and I agree with your argument. I just think you need to tell inform your readers where you get your information from.
ReplyDeleteEven with those reliable sources, they sometimes bring out fake news. President Trump recently argued that those news website like the New York Times, Abcnews just to mention a few were all fake. Readers have to be careful in what they believe to be true
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it has to be done. But can you pump this up with specific examples to show readers what's fake news versus what's bad quality news (secondhand news?) versus trustworthy news? Data--it's what's convincing!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on how we should go on reliable news site for real news, I wrote the same thing for my blog post. I talked about how we should not only go on one news sites we should go to multiple to avoid bias.
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