fact vs fiction: who can you trust?
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Fact vs Fiction: Who Can You Trust?. Don’t believe everything you read or see online!. Why is one news source more trustworthy than another?. Why believe one, not the other?. A journalist’s job is to gather information and verify whether it’s true—and then report on it. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Fact vs Fiction: Who Can You Trust?
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Don’t believe everything you read or see online!
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Why is one news source more trustworthy than another?
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Why believe one, not the other?
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A journalist’s job is to gather information and verify whether it’s
true—and then report on it.
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http://www.newseum.org/digital-classroom/video/getting-it-right/default.aspx
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Journalists and news outlets use this standard to
determine truth and accuracy: V.I.A.
Verification
Independence
Accountability
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Verification
This is the process that establishes whether something is true and accurate--or not.
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President Lisa has been shot in her office—is it true? How do you prove it?
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Find more than one good source:
• Go to the scene—her office.• Ask an official from the college to confirm.• Check with the police and hospital where she
was taken.• Interview eyewitnesses.• Call her family for comment.
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Independence
Journalists and news outlets must be free from the control, influence or support of interested parties, coupled with a conscious effort to set aside any pre-existing beliefs and a system of checks and balances.
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You work at Reuters News Service and the Dominican Republic Tourist Bureau offers you an all-expense paid trip to cover a new
resort in Samana. Should you take it?
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You’re a correspondent at ABC News and your husband becomes the governor of California. Should you stay in your job?
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You land an exclusive interview with an up-and-coming rapper for Vibe Magazine. He asks for $300. Should you pay?
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You’re a reporter at Businessweek. You get a hot tip to buy stock in Makerbot which makes 3 D
printers, so you purchase some shares. You then get assigned to write about the 3-D printer
craze. Should you?
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The rules?
• You can’t be paid to report a story. At the highest levels, you can’t pay someone to give you the story.
• You can’t write about your family or friends.• You can’t report on a company that you work
for, own stock in, have a vested interest in.• You can’t go on a trip that a company pays for
and then write about the destination.
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A journalist or legitimate news outlet must be accountable:
• Use named sources or have notes and recordings to prove that the reporting is correct.
• Use bylines so you know who wrote the story.• Make corrections if necessary—rather than
leave mistakes on the record.
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New York Times
Correction:
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What’s a good source of information?
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Good Sources for your research (never use just one!)
• Search engines—google, yahoo, msn etc.• News sites and content aggregators:
NYTimes.com, cnn.com, pbs.org, yahoo and google news.
• Databases: Nexis/Lexis• Government websites: city, state, federal• Independent, nonprofit organizations: American
Heart Association• A person’s own website.
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To be a smart consumer of news:
• 1. Ask yourself, what am I looking at?• 2. Think critically about the source?• 3. Learn to spot bias.• 4. Beware of wikipedia.• 5. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled.
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What am I looking at?
• Is it news? Opinion? A blog? Gossip? Advertising? Propaganda?
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Know the difference between news and opinion (these journalists are paid to be opinionated!)
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Think critically about the source.
• Who created the report? For what purpose? How was the information verified? Is it presented in a way that’s fair?
• FOLLOW THE $$$$$$$$
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Learn to spot bias.• Watch for loaded or inflammatory words.
Does the author have an agenda? The news outlet?
• Are all sides of the story presented? Did the subject respond?
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Journalists and news outlets use this
Verify information
Are Independence
Are Accountable to the public
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As a consumer of media, don’t forget to:
• 1. Ask yourself, what am I looking at?• 2. Think critically about the source?• 3. Learn to spot bias.• 4. Beware of wikipedia.• 5. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled.