The Onion essays
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Effects of News Media Imagining I am a news editor, I will respond to an online discussion thread regarding how information media has affected American culture. Does the information media have social responsibility? If yes, in what ways? If not, why not? Stemming back from our Founding Fathers, the news media was deemed the fourth branch of the government. This allowed journalists to report freely without government censorship. Hence, freedom of the press. From this, the press would be able...
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Fake news isn't a new issue in today's society. Fake news is news, stories or information created to misinform people intentionally. Counterfeit news is destructive in nature, it makes misguided judgments and disarray of genuine reality news. There are varying sentiments with regards to distinguishing kinds of fake news. Nonetheless, with regards to assessing content online there are different kinds of fake or deluding news we should know about. Fake news can travel by mouth, on the internet, on flyers...
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In the article, ‘Obama Sinks Family Savings into Developing Presidential Tabletop Game’, an anonymous author discusses, as the title states, how the former president Barack Obama is sinking all of his financial gains into the development of a board game. This article can be found on a notorious fake news website called ‘The Onion’. The article achieves its purpose as a piece of fake news because it does not have a certified publisher to back up the article and the...
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