Unreliable Sources

Since announcing his candidacy for president, Trump has created an even bigger name for himself dominating the news. And since Trump had decided to skip the last Republican debate aired on Fox News a few weeks ago, Trump had sent a message to Fox News showing his dominance over any event. Fox News may be able to afford giving digs at Trump, but because it is a Republican based network Fox News could not afford and would see much rating loss if they made a decision to drop Trump. What Is A Trump Republican? Donald’s personal attack strategy a new frontier for GOP candidates, the headline of a story Fox News released describing about a Trump Republican an outsider. The article is not bashing Trump the entire time, but the interviews included talk about why Trump is not ready to be president. During a TV interview in February, Trump mentioned the Pope’s unbelief with the danger the United States has with Mexico. Instantly, the news broke. CNN released a story headlined Really, Donald Trump? A Fight With The Pope? Fox News released a story shortly after headlining Trump: Pope will wish I was president when ISIS hits Vatican. Both news networks focus the story on the interview with Trump, but both in different ways are attacking Trump, portraying him an evil man. CNN does this by correlating Trump bad

As Carr continues, he speaks of his extended use of the internet over the last decade, explaining that all information that he once painstakingly searched for is done in minutes with the use of search engines. In doing this, Carr places blame on the internet for breaking his ability to concentrate. Carr presents his arguments in a way that his readers could easily agree. He gradually works up to the idea that the internet has weakened his ability to focus, and as he does this he makes several general statements about the internet’s nature. These points on the net’s nature are so basic that any reader of his article would be inclined to agree with them, and this lends itself to help readers believe the argument Carr wishes to propose. Because it would be hard to provide factual evidence to support his claims, Carr effectively uses logical reasoning to convince the reader.

First, Rupert Murdoch discusses how Fox News uses different “techniques” to report their opinion as news. Some of these techniques include cutting of their guest, using God and religion as a mean of standard and “correctness”, and creating manipulated titles. News “anchor” like Bill O’ Reily is known to interrupt his guest and repeatedly using the word “shut up” with the guest has conflicting views with himself and the network. Also shown in the video is another news anchor saying, “my religion didn't

Hosts, reporters, and commentators dug at President Trump and his administration in almost every single story aired over the course of an hour and a half. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow eluded that Trump’s alleged ties with Russia “will come out soon,” but she omitted the word alleged, a move that could trigger a slander lawsuit. This framing by both MSNBC and Fox advance a political agenda. If a media consumer were to watch only one of these outlets, that consumer would hear only one view on the world. I believe these partisan outlets can cause closed-mindedness and advocate against those with different beliefs to work together.

In the article “GOP-Fox Circus Act”, Reed Richardson argues that although both the GOP and Fox have conservative political values, they are ultimately harmful to each other’s agendas because of their differing political goals. Both organizations are lacking popularity in recent years so they are struggling to find new ways to gain an audience. The GOP wants to find a way to get their ideas to a wide variety of people, whereas Fox is promoting more liberal views to increase the ratings of their programs. On one hand, the GOP’s reputation is hurt by the inaccuracy of Fox’s reporting. On the other hand, Fox is tied down by the conservative views of the GOP, thus restraining Fox from gaining a larger audience. Journalist Reed Richardson wrote this article for The National, a liberal newspaper, in 2013, so the events and issues that he is speaking of are still relevant to this day. Due to the differences of political views between the author and the subject matter, there is plenty of room for biased statements and opinions. Does Richardson provide enough evidence of the harmful effects of the Fox and GOP relationship? Richardson clearly and meticulously establishes the problems that both organizations face in the pursuit of their political goals with the use of statistics, reliable sources, and thorough evaluation of events; however Richardson constantly provides the reader with a biased argument when discussing the current state of Fox.

College life can be pretty stressful and complicate it at times. There are several things that can help college life become easier and more manageable. One of the main things and if not the most important it will be the ability to identify and separate credible online sources from non-credible ones. It is very true that technology has help make college life easier, with search engines such as Google or Bing at just one click away of distance. The only problem is that with so many choices to pick from how to tell if a source is even worth to look at without having to expend a great amount of time looking at each one through. Even though non-credible sources are easier to find, credible sources

News sources carry the persona of giving biased information in the vast majority of cases-whether or not you may consider that as a “good” or “bad” thing. No matter what news source you retrieve your information from, there is almost assuredly a flaw in the way that news is presented to the audience, in order to try and persuade you to follow their bias. Oftentimes the bias is politically based; for instance, Fox News is believed to show bias in favor of the Republican party, professional sports outlets may be biased towards certain teams or players, certain articles or reports may be biased towards a certain race, and so on. The bottom line is no matter how significant (or insignificant) the news may be, or what the subject of the news may

Within these two popular news channels, stories and changes within the government are altered to fit the watcher’s views. While Fox News focuses on the more conservative points of view of the public, CNN places their informative stories in a more Liberal light. Fox news tends to report stories in a one-sided viewpoint, which creates a lack of space for viewers to establish an opinion of their own. CNN reports their stories in more of a broad spectrum and positive light, which allows its viewers to gain more of a perspective in problems that are persisting in today’s society. I believe that, out of Fox News and CNN, Fox News displays the most of muckraking today because it only provides one side of the story, with only personal opinions as their proof. In the past, muckraking was meant to be more a informative style of journalism but as the years went by, many people use yellow journalism as a form of entertainment and way to make money; this journalism has seemed to emerge in other ways and slowly disappear in

“Fair and balanced” is the slogan for Fox News. Tim Dickinson, the author of “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America’s Unfair and Imbalanced Network,” couldn’t disagree more. Dickinson, in criticism of Fox News, quotes Roger Ailes, the founder of the news network by saying that “Forget all the facts and figures, and move to the offense as quickly as possible” would serve as a more appropriate slogan. (Dickinson, ’11 p.7) In short the author feels that Ailes is “cleverly camouflaging political propaganda as independent journalism.”(Dickinson, ’11 p. 2)

Fox News is a known conservative outlet. In some people’s opinion they aren’t too reliable.However, their website is put together nicely and is easily accessible. In an article about Bernie Sanders they would say things “Has the Bernie Sanders phenomenon reached the point where the media have to take it more seriously?” (Kurtz, Howard. "The Bernie Boom: Why Sanders Is Shattering the Media's Expectations." Fox News. FOX News Network, 06 Oct. 2015. Web. 15 Nov. 2015.) That is obvious bias, claiming that Sanders hasn’t been taken seriously until now. Fox News also would not show full quotes of Sanders, but instead they would quote just a word. ("Bernie Sanders Takes Aim at 'greedy' Koch Brothers." Fox News. FOX News Network, 22 Aug. 2015. Web. 15 Nov. 2015) When you search “Bernie Sanders” on Fox News’ website one article comes up and it’s about Bernie Sanders themed underwear, professional. If you are a democrat you would most likely not use Fox News to get your news.

Trump says “Mexico has taken advantage of us in another way as well: gangs, drug traffickers and cartels have freely exploited our open borders and committed vast numbers of crimes inside the United States”. This quote may has some truth to it but only 2.3% to 5.9% of hispanics are incarcerated compared to 3.5% US born.

In this article, Tucker Carlson, one of the main anchors of Fox News defended Mr. Trump’s picks and blasted media.

As information technology continues to expand, we find that almost anyone can be a self-claimed expert in almost any field, without the cumbersome technicality of having an educational background on the matter they choose to discuss. This issue is further exacerbated when those individuals are given a public platform to convey their poorly substantiated opinions. Now it is important, as it has always been that the individual must take it upon their self to properly research the subject matter before developing an opinion. In this case, information technology has provided people with the ability to easily obtain information from reliable sources.

If, however, the student can detect and evade these faulty schemes they can continue to a reliable source. Once the student clicks on a link pictures for the “Newest Weight Loss Diet” or “Justin Bieber Deportation” are almost guaranteed to appear subsequently after that one subtle push on a button. To me the internet is like taking small sips of poison indulged in my favorite beverage; at first it doesn’t kill me, and I think “Hey, I feel pretty good drinking this Rockstar Cola. I am learning so much information that this doesn’t seem real”. But as I take a little sip here and there the amount of poison builds up in me, and when it comes to the topic I am researching I am braindead before I can soak up all the information I need to write my paper. I may remember a few main points, but the majority of important information isn’t absorbed.

Moreover, many people are mistaken that they trust the internet, when really they can’t. They are not aware of the disadvantages of relying on the