Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News Edition | WNYC

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November 18, 2016

Breaking News Consumer Handbook: Fake News Edition

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 Summary Transcript

  
Drawing a distinction between fake and real news is going to be hard for those Facebook and Google employees tasked with banning offending sites. But it shouldn’t be so hard for you, the consumer.

Melissa Zimdars, assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College, has made a list of more than a hundred problematic news sites, along with tips for sorting the truthful from the troublesome. She talks with Brooke about how to be a savvy news consumer in a misinformation-filled world. Read more (and listen to the podcast)

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By  Katrina vanden Heuvel

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in Washington in 2013. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

The Trump administration’s unrelenting attacks on the media and assault on reality have been well covered by journalists and media outlets that find themselves in the new administration’s crosshairs. Yet while the White House’s insistence on “alternative facts” may be more visibly ominous, there is another growing threat to the independent media that also demands our attention. 

Despite his crusade against the press, Trump’s contempt does not seem to apply to the massive conglomerates — such as Comcast and Verizon — with so much influence over what the American people watch on television and read on the Internet. And at a time when extreme commercialization has helped drive the decline of accountability journalism, Trump and his recently appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai, have signaled their intention to exacerbate the problem. Read more...

Fake news is real

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Fake news is real: Fake news. You’ve heard about it, consumed it, probably even believed it — at least on occasion. But what is it? Why does it exist? How do we combat it and why can’t it just go away? USC Times invited two faculty members and an alumnus who serves as the attorney for the South Carolina Press Association to discuss one of the most vexing of 21st century media problems — the rampant spread of fake news, clickbait profiteering and outright propaganda.



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Truth and Lies in Media and Politics: A Reading List

Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
Do Facts Matter?: Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
It Ain’t Necessarily So: How the Media Remake our Picture of Reality
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
Distant Witness: Social Media, The Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution
Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News
Deciding What’s True: the Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism

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