Fact over fake : a critical thinker's guide to media bias and political propaganda /: a critical thinker's guide to media bias and political propaganda. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Linda Elder, Richard Paul.
• Authors: Elder, Linda, 1962-; Paul, Richard
• Contents: <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Introduction: Why Critical Thinking is Essential to Making Sense of the News ; The Logic of the News Media; What is News? ; Political Views in the News – Understanding the Liberal Mind ; Political Influences, Advertising, and Group Think ; Technological Noise in the News ; What We Need the News Media to Do for Us <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 1: Current Trends Affecting How We See the News ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Key Critical Thinking Questions to Ask When Seeking the News ; Realities That Impede Our Ability to Get Objective News ; The Problem of Fake News ; <span style="tab-stops:left 300.5pt;">Social Media as an Unreliable News Source ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 2: Essential Critical Thinking Tools for Understanding Media Logic ; Defining Critical Thinking ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">A Comprehensive Approach to Critical Thinking ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">All Humans Use Their Thinking to Make Sense of the World ; All Thinking Is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up ; Analyze Thinking Through its Elemental Structures ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Question the Reasoning Embedded in a News Article ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Question Your Own Reasoning While Reading the News <br />Reason Through News Articles, Editorials, and Stories – a Checklist ; Evaluate Reasoning Through Critical Thinking Standards ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Critical Thinking Standards for Assessing News Articles, Editorials, and ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Stories ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Defining Characteristics of the Disciplined Mind – ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> and How They Help Us See Through Bias and Propaganda ; Rational or Irrational Tendencies Can Control the Mind ; Humans Distort Reality Through Irrational Lenses ; The Problem of Egocentric Thinking ; The Problem of Sociocentric Thought ; ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 3: Objectivity, Bias, and Underlying Agendas ; Democracy and the News Media; Myths That Obscure the Logic of the News Media; Bias and Objectivity in the News Media; How the News Media Views Objectivity ; Forms of Objectivity; The Perception of Bias in the Mainstream; Propaganda and News Story Writing; Protecting the Home Audience from Feelings of Guilt; How the News Media Fosters Sociocentric Thinking; ; ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 4: Become an Astute Media Consumer ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">How to Obtain Useful Information from Propaganda and Typical News Stories; Steps in Becoming a Critical Consumer of the News; Media Awareness of Media Bias; Sensitivity to Advertisers; Sensitivity to Politicians and the Government<br />Sensitivity to Powerful Interests; Sensitivity to Their Competitors; The Bias Toward “Novelty” and “Sensationalism” Critical Consumers of the News; Dominant and Dissenting Views: Finding Alternative Sources of Information; Buried, Ignored, or Underreported Stories ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Readings that Help You Become a More Independent Thinker ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 5: The Future of the News ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is It Possible for the News Media to Reform?; Is the Emergence of a “Critical Society” Possible? ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Afterword: How the Internet and Other Technologies Pervade Our Lives ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">How the Internet Works: The Big Picture ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Assess a Given Website Using Critical Thinking Standards ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Appendix: <span style="font-weight:bold;">An Abbreviated Glossary of Critical Thinking Concepts and Terms ; <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">; ;
• Publisher Details: Dillon Beach : The Foundation for Critical Thinking
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.23; Mass media -- Objectivity; Journalism -- Objectivity; Press and propaganda; Press and politics; Critical thinking
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538143957
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