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    How Does Pressgrade Work?

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    How does Pressgrade work? Pressgrade is a community-supported platform that provides accurate news in the most efficient way possible. Simply search any news topic you are interested in, and Pressgrade will use an algorithm to determine which news stories are displayed along with their rankings. Unlike other news aggregates, Pressgrade factors in your input by allowing you to vote on articles based on the following criteria: Balanced (unbiased): All sides of the issue are represented equally and

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    How does the news we see on social media differ from what we’re being presented with on broadcast? Which is likely to have more of an influence on citizens? Throughout this essay I have selected to focus on the difference of news we see on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter to what we’re being presented with on traditional media platforms such as television and radio and which of the two is more likely to have an influence on us as citizens who are consuming the news. I will discuss

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    The news media’s role in today’s society is interlocked and essential to the conveying of information. The news media has access to television broadcasting and has people to go find stories to broadcast. However, as time has progressed, the news media has become more and more opinionated. Consequently, the bias of the news media in their reporting’s has tainted the opinions of the American people. By creating a strict set of laws pertaining to the reporting of news, bias within reports will have

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    social media has become a great way for people to get news, but it has also become a way for rumors, scams, and false political stories to spread. These things have all become classified as ‘fake news.’ Fake news started with the internet, and it has evolved through social media to become a real problem. People are being tricked by fake news into giving up personal information or being led to believe in false rumors about people or politics. Fake news has become such a ubiquitous idea that even the President

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    can sell the video to highest bidder and that it would be a top story on the news. Lou was intrigued and asked if Joe had a job, which he did not, and when Lou saw the work on the news he was convinced this was his new career. Lou steals a high-end bike and trades up at a pawn shop for a video camera and a police scanner. His first story is a carjacking story where he was able to get up close footage. Nina, the director of news, was very interested in his footage for the pure graphic nature of

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    children and how they portrayed them in general. In local papers there are usually articles of local news from around the area, items for sale and advertisements. Local papers highlight local stories and issues. Local papers usually have the scores or information about local teams in the sport section. The local papers are distributed to a specific area and usually contain news about

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    Fake news is completely made up and manipulated to attract maximum attention and resemble credible journalism. With each click, these stories are able to acquire an increasing rate of revenue through their advertisements. Most of today’s fake news can be found spreading around social media because most people don’t realize what they share contains misinformation that’s being applied in order to appeal to its readers. It’s easy for readers to fall into these traps because the headlines that journalists

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    Is television news still a good way to obtain solid information? When it comes to television news, most people would agree that they believe they are receiving good, reliable information. However, the media that the public sees and hears today is a lot different from what was reported about eighty years ago, a time when Edward Murrow was covering World War II through the radio and sharing unbiased news around the country. His honest reporting allowed him to gain the trust of the audience and helped

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    Flawed News and Public Opinions TV Journalism has been degraded to the point in which true factual and informative reporting free of bias has been replaced with short news bytes centered and focused on its entertainment value alone. Within the political process, this has mostly served as a disservice to both politicians and the general public audience. Edward J Epstein published a book entitled “News from Nowhere” in which he observed NBC’s news department and how decisions were made on what was

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    journalism in the United States has spanned from the first colonist crossing the Atlantic Ocean to today’s mass media. Even before we were a country we had printers and journalists writing and printing stories for the people. Looking back, we can divide journalism history into different time periods and see how news reporting developed over time. Some of these time periods include the Colonial Period which spanned from when the first Pilgrims came to America in the mid 1600’s till the 1760’s. Other periods

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