| Description | Why? | Example/Evidence | ||
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Fake News | Because it isn't real. | Google #pizzagate | Read PBS's "The very real consequences of fake news stories and why your brain can't ignore them. |
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Alternate Facts | Because alternate facts only exist in alternate universes. | On Chuck Todd's Meet the Press: Conway: "You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that." Todd: "Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods." Conway: "If we're going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we're going to have to rethink our relationship here." |
In order to accurately report the news journalists require a mutually agreed upon reality. If the facts do not fit a particular narrative they are still the facts. The only "alternative" to a fact is, in fact, not a fact. |
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Sean Spicer | Attacked media for reporting the truth. | "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, contradicting all available data. | As our nation is divided further and further into our own personal echo chambers our "facts" are based more on who we get our news from rather than what actually happened. Check what you read and see against other sources. Double check the "facts" of what your being told. Consume your media critically! |