If you’ve ever gotten your news from Twitter, a random headline or a website that looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2009, it’s probably not reliable. And yet, despite so much attention revolving around “fake news” these days, we’re still getting tricked, hoodwinked, even bamboozled by unreliable sources—all because of our own ignorance. The […]
Ashley Verdugo/ Contributing Writer Fake news became the phrase of the 2016 presidential election, thanks to Donald Trump. CNN and the New York Times became his target, and journalists were called out for being biased against the president. But many of us don’t think fake news was the big deal that the president has made […]
Thanks to the rise of “fake news” and commentators, it has become easier to blame or distrust the media for its so-called distortion of the truth, especially with news being so accessible through various platforms these days. The fact is, “the media” as a description for the whole is a blatant overgeneralization of our current […]
