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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Infotainment vs Journalism: News Media For Public Entertainment

Propaganda- information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infotainment

When hard news goes soft, entertainment takes over.
http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/whatever-happened-news

The first that I ever heard the term yellow journalism was in the fifth grade when it was mentioned in our American History book as a trigger for the Spanish American War.  
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

When I taught high school Language Arts, I collected the National Enquirer copies that my mother was finished with [Yes, she also enjoyed conservative talk radio. But even so, she was pragmatic enough and enough of a horticulturist and nature lover to see that climate change was increasing despite what other conservatives said.] When I had enough so that each student had a copy to peruse, I challenged them to find five things that were solid truths and five things that were flagrant lies. The lies were easy to spot, but the available truths were harder to find because they were so minor and were generally used as a backdrop for the sensationalisms being foisted upon the reader. 
https://samslair.blogspot.com/2017/01/fake-news-new-species-hotheaded-mole.html?m=0