01/16/2017
This link will take you to a document created by Melissa Zimdars, an Assistant Professor of Communications at Merrimack College. The Google Doc includes websites, ranging from fake news sources, such as the ones created by teenagers in Macedonia, to those that are sometimes reliable but use sensational and misleading headlines (think The Daily Kos, UsUncut, The Blaze, or Red State). It also includes several tips for analyzing sources of information. Keep in mind that in doing research, we need to use reliable sources. There is a difference between journalism, writing from a particular political perspective, and deceptive propaganda. This document will help you with your research in this class and in other classes as well.
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources Tips for analyzing news sources: Avoid websites that end in “lo” ex: Newslo. These sites take pieces of accurate information and then packaging that information with other false or misleading “facts” (sometimes for the purposes of...