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January 11, 2018

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Journal Entry #3- Writing the News Articles

"High Driver Hits Firetruck Trying to Avoid Monkeys on Road" On October 9th 2017, at 5:35pm (rush hour), Janet was driving her man Avery's car while under the influence. It was said to believe that at 12:39am Avery and Janet were at McDonald's for the seventh time that day. Carrol, the McDonalds cashier overheard Janet telling Avery "You did too much cocaine to drive, I am taking the merc back to your house!!!" When leaving the restaurant Janet did not go out the driveway, she went through the restaurant, (see clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOKzUgdXaeQ ). Janet continued to drive the mercery back to her hometown but on the way home, she seemed to be hallucinating. Janet told the police "there were monkeys everywhere, I was just trying to save them because they may have escaped from the zoo!" While Janet was in the process of trying to save the monkeys, she swerved to the left and hit a firetruck. Luckily all of the firemen wer...

Facing fake news

The photo of the flowers does not look real to me. I think that this could be very easily photoshopped. I checked the screenshot of the picture, and it does not look like a reliable site to me. The site looks more like a spam site of some type that I have never heard of so, going by the tips on how to spot fake news, I am going to say this is a fake photo. I do not know for sure but I would guess that it is fake. To go about verifying my claim, I would do further research on this photo, maybe search up “deformed flowers from nuclear spill” and just see if this photo does pop up.

Caught in Lies

Have you ever considered that the news you read (or watch or hear) may be factually incorrect or even fabricated? Explain why or why not. I have considered that the news could be fake because there are a lot of people around that would put fake news out there to give them self some publicity. What is your reaction to the two articles? Were you surprised to find out that professional journalists have fabricated news? My reaction was very surprised, I knew people did put fake news out there but I didn't think people put stuff about some serious topics. I did not think professionals would come up with such fake news. Journalist Jack Shafer writes “most liars make things up for the simple reason that they don't have the talent or the ability to get the story any other way.” Do you agree with Shafer's assertion? Explain. I do believe with Shafers statement because if you did have the ability or talent to write a good story, they would'nt make up fake news, because ...

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