H4 NEWS PROJECT les 7 en 8

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome class HAVO 4

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is in our bag on the floor
• We don't eat, drink or chew gum in class (water bottle is allowed)

learning goals

- I know the difference between "news gone wrong" and "fake news"

VIA

What is a good news report/article, do you think?

A good news report/article:

• Fairness and balance
• Accuracy
  
• Attribution
  
• Brevity
  
• Clarity.

Background material: https://www.easymedia.in/5-characteristics-good-news-report/ 

5 characteristics

Attribution = sourcing

- individual

- organisation

-  anonymous sources

- exceptions: commonly witnessed by many

Examples of news reporting gone wrong

Source: https://listverse.com/2015/02/17/10-glaring-examples-of-news-reporting-gone-wrong/

1.) United Airlines

In September 2008, a reporter for Miami-based Income Securities Advisors found a 2002 article about a financially moribund United Airlines filing for bankruptcy. However, the article itself was undated. As a result, the Google web crawler assigned it the date of the search, giving the impression that a half-dozen-year-old crisis was breaking news. The reporter then relayed the information to Bloomberg, a premier name in finance news, and as soon as the story went up, United Airlines’s stock price nosedived by 75 percent. Traders jettisoned 15 million shares, as the stunned company did its best to disabuse Bloomberg of the disastrous misconception.

2. A Poorly Translated Article Devalued The US Dollar

Guan Xiangdong, a tourism reporter for the China News Service, was tasked with filling in for her finance reporters that were on vacation in May 2005. Attempting to provide various perspectives on how an appreciation of China’s currency, the Renminbi, would affect the local economy, she pulled bits of from various media outlets to form her own collage of facts and opinions.

With lightning-quick reactivity, investors began dumping US dollars and buying everything from Renminbi to rupees in an avalanche of misinformed fervor. Within minutes, $2 billion had exchanged hands.

 

3.) Blindly Reporting A False Accusation Of Child Endangerment

Few crimes rival terrorism in emotional impact and reprehensibility, but wanton child neglect has a way of tapping into a public’s deepest wells of disdain. That’s why when news station KHOU accused Araceli Cisneros of leaving her two defenseless children to swelter in a car on a day measuring in at 32 degrees Celsius (90 °F) while she went to get a haircut, the public was irate. 

The stage for that rage was amplified when controversial show host Nancy Grace branded Cisneros unfit to raise a child, airing heartbreaking cell phone footage of people breaking the glass of the car door to rescue the trapped kids. That would all seem warranted were it not for the complicating detail that the story was an utter crock.

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Cisneros was the victim of a dishonest witness looking to create a huge story at an innocent person’s expense. The mother didn’t abandon her offspring to bake like buns in an automotive oven to tend to cosmetic concerns. She’d actually accidentally locked her keys in the car and desperately begged for help. 

The people filmed rescuing her kids had arrived to the scene in response to Cisneros’s please for assistance. The news station would have discovered this reality had it not simply relayed the story without checking it for accuracy.

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What is fake news?

Fake news 

Fake news, also known as junk news, pseudo-news, alternative facts or hoax news, is a form of news consisting of deliberate disinformation or hoax spread via traditional news media (print and broadcast) or online social media.

Fake news 

 It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.

It is sometimes generated and propagated by hostile foreign actors, particularly during elections.

Once common in print, the prevalence of fake news has increased with the rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed.

Fake news can also happen with real footage.

It all depends on how you frame them.

How do you recognize fake news?

now write your own fake news headline!