Matt and Jay discuss fake news, clickbait, Hitler and the Rabbi on CNN, learning the bias of your media, and how you can find the truth!
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Ep. 50 - Fake News vs Real News
4:30 - What is Fake News? - News published usually with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically to increase readership
8:00 - What is Real News? - News that endeavors to report facts, tells both sides of the story, news that you trust
12:00 - Similar goals of Fake News and Real News: Both designed to make $$, both created to serve a biased niche, both designed to be shared
14:00 - Logical arguments vs pure opinion
16:00 - The ultimate news interview "Hitler and the Rabbi"
18:00 - Are you feeling strong emotions when reading a headline? It's almost guaranteed that it's a biased source
20:00 - Fake vs Real News Example: "Rioters and Ronald McDonald House"
22:30 - Writing "clickbait" titles for articles
24:30 - Fake vs Real News Example: "Mississippi House Bill 762 and weapons inside churches"
WASM Podcast #48 - "Should You Own a Gun?"
27:30 - California's controversial new "high-capacity" gun magazine law
32:00 - News perspectives on the explosion in Beirut: Left, Right and Centrist
34:00 - What is "bias" and why does it matter?
36:00 - Top 15 news outlets and their respective biases
Nolan Chart of political biases
News media bias chart
42:00 - The danger of opinions as News
46:00 - NYT Opinion editor fired for publishing right-leaning opinion piece
47:30 - How to stay safe from Fake News and be safe online
52:00 - Is Snopes.com 100% accurate? Is ANY media outlet 100% accurate?
54:00 - NO media outlet has all the facts - check all the sides of EVERY story