JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Polar Vortex, Speed Bump
24 Dec 2020
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Four moves and a habit: fact checking the news. First attempts were huge long checklists to decide opinions on stories (misguided, nobody has time for that) Read laterally circle back check for previous work go upstream to the source. If a story is legit, it"s going to be covered in multiple places (ex polar vortex is covered everywhere) What have other authoritative sources said about the site. Not just the links on the site itself. Then, re engage with the original site. Use your emotions as a mental trigger or internal speed bump to start the fact checking process. Emotional appeals are very often created by active agents of deception. News stories applied with an audience in mind, not always defined by geography. Journalism is a set of transparent, independent procedures aimed at gathering, verifying and reporting truthful information of consequence to citizens in a democracy. Doesn"t need to be a democracy, but definition would change.
