Essays on News

Fake news is a report characterized by sensationalized, inaccurate, and misleading content whose primary goal is to misdirect, gain undue attention, and deceive both the target audience and spoil reputation for those under attack by the peddled propaganda. Contrary to misinformation, which could be as a result of confusion on...

What are some critical conditions of free or under-paid media labor and what can we learn by thinking about these conditions in relations to each other? Introduction Recently, significant changes have occurred in the world of work because of technology advancement or digitization, increased globalization, demographic changes among other aspects. Media and...

This research summary explored the use of social media in politics. It relied on four articles published within the last ten years. Any correspondence regarding this research summary should be addressed to (insert student s name and address) Section One: Introduction (250 words) The emergence of digital and social media has changed...

Fake News and its Impact on Society Fake news in the 21st century is one of the major issues that have raised concern among governments, intermediaries and even end users of the information. Fake news is a series of deliberately created stories that are incorrect that are spread to promote or...

Media coverage of events is essential in ensuring that society is informed of the current issues in the country or the world. Poor coverage may result in the media companies losing their credibility and rise in misinformation (Pavelka, 2014). However, despite that the media may have first-hand information on the...

In the recent years, the spread of news through digital means has become popular. People read news from Facebook and websites of various newspapers and journals. News organisations are investing more funds in social media campaigns than ever before. However, public service broadcasting is still essential in Australia, and the...

Understanding the concept and contexts of fake news has over the years been a growing problem in different parts of the globe. Considerably, developed countries such as the United States and Russia have over the last four decades greatly suffered from the effects of this vice that limits the operations...

The Affordable Care Act and its False Assumptions The Affordable Care Act was doomed from the beginning due to a false assumption in one of its main pillars, which was meant to provide universal health coverage even to those who could not afford it. According to Senator John McCain, who made...

The Spectator and English City Life The Spectator covered a variety of facets of English city life. In the 18th century, the news journal evolved to become one of the most read publications. Beginning in early 1700, the one-page essay was released once a week, with an emphasis on commentary on...

The Press Enterprise newspaper The Press Enterprise newspaper was founded in 1869, but it wasn't until 1974 that it adopted its current moniker. Other two competing newspapers that had appeared during this time presented a threat to the newspaper at the time. When editor Judge J. and Confederate soldier William F....

Logical Fallacies in News Stories It has recently been observed that news stories are frequent offenders of presenting logical fallacies. There are various types of logical fallacies, such as anecdotal fallacy and accent fallacy. The former employs a single example or personal experience rather than persuasive evidence or logical argument. The...

"Woman survived slaughter, returns to torched house," a CNN news article written by Dakin Andone and published on October 15th, 2017. The article relates the tale of Michella Flores, a flight attendant who encountered a range of emergency scenarios in her life. She became a victim of circumstances over the...