Yellow
Journalism rising on social media have been going on for a while now. There a
lot of fake news on social media, a lot of writers just make them up because
they earn money or want money. Facebook and Twitter is one of the leading
social media where writers post fake news to get through their audience. Fake
news is everywhere which is crazy because it’s giving the audience false
information of what’s going on in the world today.
Writers use aggressive words and symbols, some
examples are LIAR, !!!! to get readers attention. When readers see these words, it
gets their attention and they open the page and read the fake news. When
writers write fake news about a politician for example President Trump and if
the reader don’t like President Trump they will believe everything that the
news article says. Sometimes they use quality information to support the fake
news, readers easily fall for this
The topic
was ridiculous; but the author did a good job on providing quality backup
information which they used to support the topic. The writer highlighted
the topic with black font color and capitalized all the words to draw attention.
The article talks about how Obama has taken things too far and signed a
bill to ban schools from saying the pledge of Allegiance. Reading the comment
was hilarious because people really believed this article and one person who
commented said “OMG what is
wrong with saying the pledge. It did not hurt anyone for over 50 years. This
country is being destroyed from within. Be careful what you wish for” (Rego).
It’s funny because this person actually believes this article.
Reading
the article about Yellow Journalism shows how Wade and Goldman make fake news
and post it on their website and they make money from it. They sit on the couch
post fake news and just watch people view it and they get their paycheck at the
end of the month. They know what they are doing is not good so they got a
lawyer in case someone tries to sue the over a fake news post.
This website was taken down after a few weeks, the whole website is not available now and it’s really funny because why will you take down a “real” news website. Clamming it’s legit website when though the readers commented under articles showing the website was giving out fake information.
Reading your blog on Fake News has helped me to understand a different point of view from the article written by Terrance McCoy. In your article you wrote about the impact of greed earned by writers and the way people are profiting from fake journalism.
ReplyDeleteI think it's quite alright to use MLA style here for in-text citation, but then don't forget your Works Cited entry. It would be even easier to just hyperlink blog-style, right?
ReplyDeleteYou also show a lot of examples of how fake news operates on the web. Why do you think it is that people prioritize money over ethics?