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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How exactly do you "teach" someone to get "real" news and what constitutes "real news" to begin with?

For some Fox is real news just like MSNBC is for others. I get where you are tying to go but you are only opening up more discussion on who gets to inform students on the sources to go seek said news.

I think what really needs to be taught is critical thinking. I can say more but Ill stop there.[/quote]

OP here.  Re-read your post.  You are saying that real news does not exist.  This is the problem, and this is why students need to be taught a better way.  I wonder how old you are.  I am in my late thirties, and if you are younger than me, you've likely never known what real news is.  When I was growing up, my parents watched news programs which were anchored by people who had one goal - to be CORRECT! they also read the newspaper, and the articles were written by reporters with that same goal.  Then they used their very own brains to figure out where they stood.  You know, the evening news still exists, and it's still pretty accurate.  There are other credible sources, but you have to dig so deep to find them.  So if students were taught how to do this, it would eventually be a game changer.

NONE of us should consider FOX or MSNBC to be news.  This mentality is the root of the problem.  [/quote]

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