It was the penguin cookies! I told my husband a few weeks ago--remember the penguin cookies? It was the penguin cookies that got us started reading Ken Tingley's blog. Here the real penguins are again. The diversity of the natural world reminds us that our world is, indeed, a place of joy and wonder! Thanks again, Ken, for reminding us.
I like Media Bias Fact Check because it gives some insight into the 'new' source. Like one might be a far right- or left-leaning, but everything is accurate -- just the choice of what to print is bias.
ahhh the days of altavista and yahoo as a search engine
I would like to add a couple things that are between the lines
1) google searches return with ads (or people who pay to have their pages moved up in the results order) make up the first and second pages of your results.
2) google gives you what it thinks you want (and maybe what you do want), so if you are searching for a lot of things most of us would consider fake news.. many of your results will be for non-factual web sites.
I think there should be a search engine called: "What I Want To Believe" because in my discussions with the willingly ignorant, it is clear (like you point out) they are only reading what proves they want to believe.
This is a thing, that I believe is called Cognitive Bias
Adding to this, one of the funniest things I have seen.. and it relates to the so called 'click bait' where people click on things and use it as a source because the headline lead them to believe it supported "WTWTB" (What They Want To Believe), but if you read the article and go to th source the article is citing.. often it is the opposite of the headline
I believe our friend John Oliver did a story about how all walks of news people don't read the actual research papers, but just the pop culture interpretation of it.
As an information specialist, this has been a tough few decades. The teaching of an information literacy curriculum is like shoveling the tide, but it is the hill I will sacrifice myself on! thank you so much for this piece, many gems of insight and especially nomenclature were transferred to my journal, loved "critical ignorance." It also fits with work I am doing with non-violent communication and trauma recovery and it likens to the "pause" in that work to quickly evaluate the primal response to incoming stimuli. This piece was SO useful, Ken.
I think it's important to, not only learn to ignore the bad stuff, but also be receptive to a very wide range of information. When I was a young community organizer, a mentor was always telling me "trust my gut", something I do all of the time now, especially in an area where I am knowledgeable. It's not really your gut, but the microcomputer in your head processing info on another level, I think. So you need to give it lots and lots of good information to do that. Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, opened with an anecdote about a statue that the Getty Museum paid a boatload of money for. They proudly exhibited to a gathering of experts who unanimously concluded the statue was a fake. None of them could point out why they thought it was a fake- the paperwork was good, nothing in the style/execution said it was false, but the experts were all confident it was fake, they just knew somehow.
I read a lot of news now, community (even communities far from my own, if the paper is good) ,local, national, international. I think ,combined, it gives me half an idea what is going on in the world.
It was the penguin cookies! I told my husband a few weeks ago--remember the penguin cookies? It was the penguin cookies that got us started reading Ken Tingley's blog. Here the real penguins are again. The diversity of the natural world reminds us that our world is, indeed, a place of joy and wonder! Thanks again, Ken, for reminding us.
You will probably be reading more about the penguins.
Good article. I may look into those websites. Bet they’re very informative.
Here's a good resource I've found to investigate news websites.
Enter the news websites full address followed by a space then the words "media bias" such as:
Questionablenews.org media bias
You'll get a political leaning bar graph, how factual their storys are and an explanation of why they got the raiting.
thanks -- edit: the link doesn't work
here is another: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
I like Media Bias Fact Check because it gives some insight into the 'new' source. Like one might be a far right- or left-leaning, but everything is accurate -- just the choice of what to print is bias.
Another good tip.
Think it's the same outfit, just getting there differently.
Edit: it is.
Good advice. I will check it out.
My pleasure
ahhh the days of altavista and yahoo as a search engine
I would like to add a couple things that are between the lines
1) google searches return with ads (or people who pay to have their pages moved up in the results order) make up the first and second pages of your results.
2) google gives you what it thinks you want (and maybe what you do want), so if you are searching for a lot of things most of us would consider fake news.. many of your results will be for non-factual web sites.
I think there should be a search engine called: "What I Want To Believe" because in my discussions with the willingly ignorant, it is clear (like you point out) they are only reading what proves they want to believe.
This is a thing, that I believe is called Cognitive Bias
Adding to this, one of the funniest things I have seen.. and it relates to the so called 'click bait' where people click on things and use it as a source because the headline lead them to believe it supported "WTWTB" (What They Want To Believe), but if you read the article and go to th source the article is citing.. often it is the opposite of the headline
I believe our friend John Oliver did a story about how all walks of news people don't read the actual research papers, but just the pop culture interpretation of it.
John Oliver is a smart man and should also be required viewing.
As an information specialist, this has been a tough few decades. The teaching of an information literacy curriculum is like shoveling the tide, but it is the hill I will sacrifice myself on! thank you so much for this piece, many gems of insight and especially nomenclature were transferred to my journal, loved "critical ignorance." It also fits with work I am doing with non-violent communication and trauma recovery and it likens to the "pause" in that work to quickly evaluate the primal response to incoming stimuli. This piece was SO useful, Ken.
If it helps one person to recognize fake news, it is worth it.
I think it's important to, not only learn to ignore the bad stuff, but also be receptive to a very wide range of information. When I was a young community organizer, a mentor was always telling me "trust my gut", something I do all of the time now, especially in an area where I am knowledgeable. It's not really your gut, but the microcomputer in your head processing info on another level, I think. So you need to give it lots and lots of good information to do that. Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, opened with an anecdote about a statue that the Getty Museum paid a boatload of money for. They proudly exhibited to a gathering of experts who unanimously concluded the statue was a fake. None of them could point out why they thought it was a fake- the paperwork was good, nothing in the style/execution said it was false, but the experts were all confident it was fake, they just knew somehow.
I read a lot of news now, community (even communities far from my own, if the paper is good) ,local, national, international. I think ,combined, it gives me half an idea what is going on in the world.