H4 P3 News project 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 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"

- I know the criteria of a good news report/article

Homework check

Can a news company really be independent, do you think?

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) Blindly Reporting A False Accusation Of Child Endangerment

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.

(1/2)

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.

(2/2)

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?

Think of a fake news item you would like to believe.