How to choose your news

2014-06-05

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How do we choose which news to consume? Get the scoop on how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart.

With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.

Lesson by Damon Brown, animation by Augenblick Studios.

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