Journal Prompt — M6 — #1
Please respond to these news consumers’ survey questions with complete sentences:
How often do you consume (read, watch, listen) news?
How do you access news (phone, tablet, print, radio, podcast, etc.)?
What news producers do you prefer (for example, FOX, CNN, LA Times, NY Times)?
Do you believe your preferred outlets display bias?
How do you verify if any of the information you consume is true?
In terms of consuming information, do you have any guilty pleasures (for example, TMZ, the Enquirer, etc.)?
Have you every been tricked by a piece of propaganda, fake news or misinformation?
Journal Prompt — M6 — #2
Please draft a reading response to Jacob Soll’s The Long and Brutal History of Fake News (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/fake-news-history-long-violent-214535/) that includes the following:
1.) A summary of the Soll’s article
2.) It’s main argument
3).) Soll’s definition of fake news
4). Thoughts on the catalyst of disinformation in each era Soll describes