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Fake News, Satire,  and Evaluating Sources 102

What's real, misleading, clickbait, and downright fake? How do we evaluate all that info out there?

Academic Research Page

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The Chart Version 4.0
What Makes a News Source Good

Credit: Ad Fontes Media, Inc., August 2018

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Tools for Evaluation

Group Assignment and Guidelines
Fake News and Source Legitimacy - Group Presentation

People Are so Gullible
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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
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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
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"A Modest Proposal," with footnotes, Jonathan Swift


"5 Satirists Attacked by People Who Totally Missed the Point," by Gladstone in Cracked, 8 Jan. 2011
Before watching this video, be sure you know  the background for "affluenza."
What does this Dr. Suess book satirize?
(TNT tv production)

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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SNL
"More Cowbell"
video HERE
The real song from the
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Blue Oyster Cult back in the day
From interview with band member regarding SNL parody
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