How NOT To Spot Fake News
YouTube
- Creator
- PBS Idea Channel (Channel)
- Watched
- 2017-02-23
- Published
- 2017-02-23
- Category
- Education
- Duration
- 11m 55s
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- Tags
- 2016 abc bannon breitbart brietbart clinton cnn conservative education Edward S. Herman election fake news flak flak machine fox news left wing liberal Manufacturing Consent media mike rugnetta nbc new york times news Noam Chomsky pbs digital studios pbs idea channel politics PROPAGANDA right wing steve trump
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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Just because a news story is bad or troublesome that doesn’t make it FAKE... Check out Gross Science! https://www.youtube.com/user/grossscienceshow We got merch! http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com There’s been all kinds of talk recently about “fake news”, by which people normally mean incorrect or invented information, unsourced claims or patently outlandish assertions, often aimed at stirring the political … doo-doo. Fake news is even thought to have played a meaningful part the outcome of the the 2016 American presidential election. WE … are gonna do something different. We’re not gonna talk about how to spot fake news. We’re gonna talk about about how NOT to spot fake news, about how certain news items can seem suspect... but not all blemishes make their stories necessarily fake. We’re gonna talk about what ISN’T fake news by using Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s book Manufacturing Consent, as our guide. If you’re unfamiliar, these gents argue that newsmedia can function in subtle, even unmeaning ways to get people to agree with the news source, and one another, on the issues of the day and political or economic positions which largely... benefit the powerful. They call this ability the news media’s “propaganda function”, and they claim it’s built into the very structure of media itself, even media which you’d never point at and go “HEY! THAT’S A PROPAGANDA!” So follow along with us with our handy guide on how NOT to spot fake news. --COMMENT RESPONSES TO LAST WEEK’S EPISODE-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F93WxDOlqk --TWEET OF THE WEEK-- https://twitter.com/silnan/status/833672482951397376 --FURTHER READING & SOURCES-- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/18/what-is-fake-news-pizzagate https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2017/01/10/fake-news-and-the-aesthetic-of-objectivity/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumer-handbook-fake-news-edition/ --ASSET LINKS-- 00:25 Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf 00:34 The Guardian Article https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/18/what-is-fake-news-pizzagate 00:35 Cyborgology Article https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2017/01/10/fake-news-and-the-aesthetic-of-objectivity/ 00:38 On The Media Handbook https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumer-handbook-fake-news-edition/ 3:26 The Young Turks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-Silt4JJw 3:44 Bias? In My Algorithms? A Facebook News Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQA6D4JC0A 8:38 Cold War in 9 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqziNV7dGY --MERCH-- https://store.dftba.com/collections/idea-channel T-Shirts Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)