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What Makes a News Source Good
Credit: Ad Fontes Media, Inc., August 2018
Tools for Evaluation
Group Assignment and Guidelines
Fake News and Source Legitimacy - Group Presentation
People Are so Gullible
Haha!
"Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012" - The Onion
The results of The Onion's story, OMG! - CNN News report and NPR News Report - Hahahaha!
21 Ridiculous Tabloid Headlines from Weekly World - ViralNova
Weekly World News - Publisher: Bat Boy LLC - Check the Wiki info re the site
Not so Haha!
"Fake News Story Prompts Pakistan to Issue Nuclear Warning to Israel" - The Guardian
"We Tracked Down a Fake News Creator in the Suburbs. Here's What We Learned." NPR, 23 Nov. 2016.
OMG!
The City Getting Rich from Fake News - BBC News - Regarding a few teenage boys making a fortune off our gullibility.
Lies of the Year - Politifact
2015 Lie of the Year
2016 Lie of the Year
2017 Lie of the Year
Lists of Fake Sites :
Fact Checking Sites - Wonderful, useful resources
Evaluating Real Sources
Fake News and Source Legitimacy - Group Presentation
People Are so Gullible
Haha!
"Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012" - The Onion
The results of The Onion's story, OMG! - CNN News report and NPR News Report - Hahahaha!
21 Ridiculous Tabloid Headlines from Weekly World - ViralNova
Weekly World News - Publisher: Bat Boy LLC - Check the Wiki info re the site
Not so Haha!
"Fake News Story Prompts Pakistan to Issue Nuclear Warning to Israel" - The Guardian
"We Tracked Down a Fake News Creator in the Suburbs. Here's What We Learned." NPR, 23 Nov. 2016.
OMG!
The City Getting Rich from Fake News - BBC News - Regarding a few teenage boys making a fortune off our gullibility.
Lies of the Year - Politifact
2015 Lie of the Year
2016 Lie of the Year
2017 Lie of the Year
Lists of Fake Sites :
- List of Fake News Websites - Wikipedia
- False, Misleading, Clickbait-y and Satirical News Sources, Melissa Zimdar, an Assistant Professor of Communications and Media at Merrimack College. This list was last update in 2016. I contacted Zimdar, asking if she would keep it up-to-date, and she responded she couldn't because the fake sites closed down quickly once the damage was done. She likened updating it to playing Whack-a-Mole.
Fact Checking Sites - Wonderful, useful resources
- Factcheck.org - Non-profit, non-partisan
- Politifact.com - Pulitzer Prize winning site
- Opensecrets.org - Non-proft - follows the money - lobyists, contributions, etc.
- Snopes.com - Debunks urban legends and about anything else
- Truthorfiction.com - Debunks spam, trending inspirational stories and about anything else.
- Hoaxslayers.com - Debunks spam, hoaxes, and other false info.
Evaluating Real Sources
- Scholarly vs. Popular Sources - Owensboro Community College
- Popular Magazines vs. Trade Magazines vs. Scholarly Journals - Colorodo State University
- Difference Between Scholarly, Trade, and Popular Articles or Books - from Penn State
- Scholarly Journals, Trade Journals and Popular Magazines: What Are the Differences? - from Central Connecticut State Univ.
- Scholarly Journals, Popular Magazines, Practitioner/Trade Journals - Manchester.edu
SATIRE
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Assignment and Guidelines
Satire Assignment and Guidelines - Always read the assignment through before writing, then read again in midstream and again before turning in.
Universal, Abstract Ideas - You will use these ideas in all papers
Activity Before Writing
"Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, Covfefe and the Category 5 Weirdness of 2017" Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2017 - Long but great source to check current events of 2017 encapsulated in one article!
Cartoon Sources
News Through the Eyes of Cartoonists - 100 political/societal cartoons updated daily - great link - MSN
The Cagle Post - Daryl Cagle's site that includes other cartoonists
Examples
Borowitz Report - The New Yorker - Political Satire
Dave Barry's New Book: Murder Here Less Deadly than Usual, from Miami Herald
"A Modest Proposal," with footnotes, Jonathan Swift
"5 Satirists Attacked by People Who Totally Missed the Point," by Gladstone in Cracked, 8 Jan. 2011
Satire Assignment and Guidelines - Always read the assignment through before writing, then read again in midstream and again before turning in.
Universal, Abstract Ideas - You will use these ideas in all papers
Activity Before Writing
"Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, Covfefe and the Category 5 Weirdness of 2017" Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2017 - Long but great source to check current events of 2017 encapsulated in one article!
Cartoon Sources
News Through the Eyes of Cartoonists - 100 political/societal cartoons updated daily - great link - MSN
The Cagle Post - Daryl Cagle's site that includes other cartoonists
Examples
Borowitz Report - The New Yorker - Political Satire
Dave Barry's New Book: Murder Here Less Deadly than Usual, from Miami Herald
"A Modest Proposal," with footnotes, Jonathan Swift
"5 Satirists Attacked by People Who Totally Missed the Point," by Gladstone in Cracked, 8 Jan. 2011
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Before watching this video, be sure you know the background for "affluenza."
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What does this Dr. Suess book satirize?
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PARODY - SNL "MORE COWBELL"
The details below are from Rolling Stone Magazine regarding one Saturday Night Live's best skits.
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Behind the Music: Blue Oyster Cult Original Airdate: April 8th, 2000
"America loved it, but for new cast member Jimmy Fallon, this sketch was a revelation. 'I had just started on the show and I'm not the best actor in the world," he said later. "I do impressions and stuff like that. So I was stuck in a scene with the great Will Ferrell, who's one of the funniest guys ever, and we do the sketch in dress rehearsal and it's OK – it's not even that great. And then, on air… he came out with a smaller shirt so that his gut would hang out when he banged the cowbell. And everyone just broke up laughing, and I couldn't stop laughing. That's what you get when you play with the big boys.'
Though, yes, you got sick of the catch phrase, and the T-shirts and maybe even the whole idea of cowbells – and cows and bells. But the majesty of this lovingly ironic Seventies rock parody is pretty undeniable."
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Behind the Music: Blue Oyster Cult Original Airdate: April 8th, 2000
"America loved it, but for new cast member Jimmy Fallon, this sketch was a revelation. 'I had just started on the show and I'm not the best actor in the world," he said later. "I do impressions and stuff like that. So I was stuck in a scene with the great Will Ferrell, who's one of the funniest guys ever, and we do the sketch in dress rehearsal and it's OK – it's not even that great. And then, on air… he came out with a smaller shirt so that his gut would hang out when he banged the cowbell. And everyone just broke up laughing, and I couldn't stop laughing. That's what you get when you play with the big boys.'
Though, yes, you got sick of the catch phrase, and the T-shirts and maybe even the whole idea of cowbells – and cows and bells. But the majesty of this lovingly ironic Seventies rock parody is pretty undeniable."
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The real song from the
SNL parody |
Blue Oyster Cult back in the day
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From interview with band member regarding SNL parody
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