Thursday, June 28, 2018

Week 1: Intro + Whats Fake News?

Topic 1:

My Name is Chasen Cosner but i go by Chase,
I am here at LB playing baseball along with getting my AAOT to transfer and later become in the field of sports medicine. My goal is to play baseball as long as it allows me to, then having a great carer in helping fellow athletes. I am most interested in learning about really anything in media because i don't know much about it at all. I am someone who has social media like most, other than that I know close to none so I am excited to learn it all. I am very passionate about sports as well as clothing and fashion. I have spent probably to much money on shoes and clothes that are un-needed to me but hey I like what I like! 

Topic 2: 

My main three sources of information is tough to say. Considering I spend a lot of time on apps and such I would have to say Instagram, Twitter, and mainly TV channels like fox news and K12/CNN. These sources are some what reliable because they of course are in tune to whats going on in the world meaning they having people feeding them constant information. For TV and public feed they inflame problems and story's to sound more "juicy". They want us to think somethings a bigger deal than it really is. Fake news is scary, you never know whats true now days. By looking at the article of Pew Research Center, the amount of information we get that is opinionated that out ways facts by a substantial amount clearly shows you cant trust any sources unless it comes from your self. The steps you can take to figuring out if something is true or not you can first take the info you received and look it up. This then will most likely give you other details and sites giving different ideas. This allows you to then have maybe a general idea of the information.