CMN 146 Final Exam Study Guide
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• What does the author claim about the quantity of fake news?
It comes at us from every quarter of the media - old and new- not just as satire but disguised at the real thing, s
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CMN 146 Final Exam Study Guide
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• What does the author claim about the quantity of fake news?
It comes at us from every quarter of the media - old and new- not just as satire but disguised at the real thing, secretly paid by folks who want to remain in the shadow. And that we are “knee deep in fake news.”
• Note the U.S. Gov’t and Armstrong Williams examples.
Fake news was used by the government during the Iraq war in 2005, planted “Positive news” in Iraqi newspapers in an effort to sway public opinion about the war (does anyone else find this a terribly hideous thing to do? i’m appalled). Armstrong Williams was a conservative columnist who was hired to act a $240,000 sock puppet for president Bush’s no child left behind program
• What are VNRs and how are they used?
They are Video News Releases, they are used in P.R industry parlance the department of health and human services got caught producing vnrs touting the administrations medicare plan
• Where have hoaxes migrated today?
Today fake news is beginning to dominate journalism, one example of this was the spreading of false information, a psychological operation part of an effort to convince Americans that the invasion of Iraq was necessary to the war on terror. This was initiated by the military and spread through news medians such as the New York Times and CNN.
• What percentage of Americans trust the media?
2005: 6 out of 10 Americans trust the media, compared to 7/10 in the 80s. and compared to the government, americans trust the media almost 2-1.
• What does he claim about CNN and NY Times re: the lead up to the Iraq War?
Both news agencies spread false information about the Iraq war after being prompted from the Military in an attempt to make the war in Iraq necessary to complete the war on terror.
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