It’s English! Please help Are fake news and editorial slant connected? If so, in
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It’s English! Please helpAre fake news and editorial slant connected? If so, in what ways? If not, why not? Do you consider large metropolitan/national newspapers such as The New York Times the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal to be "opinion leaders" that strongly influence and shape policymakers and the public's opinions? Or do you side with. Habel in believing that these newspaper giants have a "negligible" effect on people and lawmakers? Explain your reasoning. What's your definition of "editorial slant?" How do you recognize editorial slant in a publication? Do you think university presses and academic magazines and journals have their own version of editorial slant? If so, what does that look like? If not, what types of publications have an editorial slant? Are editorial slant and facts linked? If so, how? If not, should they be linked?
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Fake news refers to factually incorrect stories created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers. On the other hand, an editorial slant is a type of media bias. An editorial slant can be distinguished from fake news in that fake news is specifically untrue in nature. Having a slant does not necessarily mean that facts are distorted, rather, it indicates that the entire story is not reported and only facts that support the dominant viewpoint is put forward. However, by using only the facts that support their cause, media outlets risk sharing fake news with the readers. Sometimes, giving incomplete information can lead to a completely different and inaccurate picture of the incident.
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