Evaluating Media and News - HCS363 - Political Rhetoric - Library at Shippensburg University

Media Bias Chart

Take a few minutes to describe your initial (and honest) reactions.

Emotions – How does this story make you feel?
Values –How does this information fit in with your value system? How are you being influenced by your own values and beliefs? How does this story fit in with Uncle Bob’s values?
Critical thinking – How does this new information compare to your existing knowledge about the topic? How would you evaluate this information? Please describe the steps you would take to fact check this tweet.
Reflection – Why do you think Uncle Bob shared this? How might you respond and why?

Fact Checking Resources

Snopes
Snopes.com has come to be regarded as an online touchstone of research on rumors and misinformation. The site’s work has been described as painstaking, scholarly, and reliable, and has been lauded by the world’s top folklorists, including Jan Harold Brunvand, Gary Alan Fine, and Patricia Turner.
Politifact
From the beginning, PolitiFact focused on looking at specific statements made by politicians and rating them for accuracy. PolitiFact is run by the editors and journalists who make up the PolitiFact team. No one tells us what to write about or how to rate statements. We do so independently, using our news judgment.
Opensecrets.com
Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. OUR VISION is for Americans to be empowered by access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy and to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy. OUR MISSION is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy.
https://www.factcheck.org
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding. A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

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