{"id":6068,"date":"2017-01-03T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2016-12-29T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T19:16:39","slug":"january-8-2016-real-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/january-8-2016-real-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"January 8, 2016–Real or Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Hiortdahl, Overland Park, KS
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Warm-up Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whom do you trust?<\/p>\n

Real or Fake
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The news is in the news.\u00a0 The president-elect has been critical of some established media, while the current president has been critical of so-called \u201cfake news,\u201d a phenomenon that has received a lot of recent attention, including this article (which may or may not be real):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A recent article in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0 suggests that fake news is not new.\u00a0 Andrew Tucher, a historian and journalism professor at Columbia University, notes that “Newspapers were very political in the early years of the republic,\u201d Tucher said.\u00a0\u201cThere was no understanding and no expectation that news should be impartial. News was the thing that expressed opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In our own day the problems seems to be that people have a hard time distinguishing fake news, partly because we are more likely to believe a lie if reinforces what we already believe.\u00a0 “If a lie is telling you something you want to hear, you’re more likely to think it is true,”says Sharon Kaye, philosophy professor at John Carroll University.<\/em><\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n