The term “Yellow Journalism” came form a New York World comic known as “Hogan’s Alley” because it had a character who dressed in yellow and was called the “yellow kid”. The rival of New York World was New York Journal. The owner of New York Journal was William Randolph Hearst, and he hired Hogan’s Alley artist, R.F Outcault so that he could create a second yellow kid character. This resulted in a competition between the so called “yellow kids”. This event is what created the term “yellow journalism”. Yellow Journalism is a style of journalism that is based on the use of shocking stories at the expense of accuracy. Journals that contained the style of yellow journalism relied on sensationalist headlines and crude information so that they can make money. Compared to fake news, satire news is different because it is easier to notice. It’s mych more obvious than fake news is. Fake news is more easily hidden, which makes it more dangerous because it seems believably and makes the public think that it is the truth. It is much more believable than fake ness is. This can put the public in danger because they want to believe that what they are reading is true. Store news can easily be detected, but fake news is harder to spot.
Sunday 17 December 2017
Journal Entry # 8 - Facing Fake News
The photograph makes me curious about whether or not I can believe it. Although the flowers in the photo are deformed looking, there isn’t enough information to prove it. I think that this photo could possibly be fake news because there is not much information to prove otherwise. There are no sources which makes me, and probably many others, wonder if it is actually reliable. I do, however, think that the photo is a form of evidence, but not enough eveidene because there is such thing as photoshop. I do not think that this article is reliable because it leaves me with too many questions.
The term “Yellow Journalism” came form a New York World comic known as “Hogan’s Alley” because it had a character who dressed in yellow and was called the “yellow kid”. The rival of New York World was New York Journal. The owner of New York Journal was William Randolph Hearst, and he hired Hogan’s Alley artist, R.F Outcault so that he could create a second yellow kid character. This resulted in a competition between the so called “yellow kids”. This event is what created the term “yellow journalism”. Yellow Journalism is a style of journalism that is based on the use of shocking stories at the expense of accuracy. Journals that contained the style of yellow journalism relied on sensationalist headlines and crude information so that they can make money. Compared to fake news, satire news is different because it is easier to notice. It’s mych more obvious than fake news is. Fake news is more easily hidden, which makes it more dangerous because it seems believably and makes the public think that it is the truth. It is much more believable than fake ness is. This can put the public in danger because they want to believe that what they are reading is true. Store news can easily be detected, but fake news is harder to spot.
The term “Yellow Journalism” came form a New York World comic known as “Hogan’s Alley” because it had a character who dressed in yellow and was called the “yellow kid”. The rival of New York World was New York Journal. The owner of New York Journal was William Randolph Hearst, and he hired Hogan’s Alley artist, R.F Outcault so that he could create a second yellow kid character. This resulted in a competition between the so called “yellow kids”. This event is what created the term “yellow journalism”. Yellow Journalism is a style of journalism that is based on the use of shocking stories at the expense of accuracy. Journals that contained the style of yellow journalism relied on sensationalist headlines and crude information so that they can make money. Compared to fake news, satire news is different because it is easier to notice. It’s mych more obvious than fake news is. Fake news is more easily hidden, which makes it more dangerous because it seems believably and makes the public think that it is the truth. It is much more believable than fake ness is. This can put the public in danger because they want to believe that what they are reading is true. Store news can easily be detected, but fake news is harder to spot.
Monday 4 December 2017
Journal Entry #7 - WikiLeaks and Whistleblowers
To help protect journalists and their anonymous sources from search warrants, the government passed a new law. It is known as the Journalism Source Protection Act, or Bill S-231. After news about Montreal and Quebec police spying on journalist had been spilled, Conservative Senator Claude Carignan introduced this law back in 2016. It was passed unanimously by the legislation with all three main political parties in favor of it.
This new bill gives journalist the right to refuse to disclose information or documents that could identify a source who had requested to remain anonymous. Search warrants will only be granted if a judge decides there is no other way to get it, or if the investigation becomes more important than the public's interest of protecting a source.
Click here to read more about the new law.
I think that this new law is a great way to help journalists out. They have to make very tough decisions in their work, and it is not always a black and white situation. This law gives them more security, and may make their decisions a little more easier. If they know that they're anonymous source can actually remain anonymous, they can inform the public on the important issues that they wish to address, but do not want to risk identifying a source. With the protection from search warrants, Journalists can be more open to releasing information.
There is no right or wrong action when it comes to releasing information that might be important for the public to know, because if they want to release it for the purpose of the public being in the know they should be allowed, but if they believe that it will risk the safety of the public and do not wish to release it than they do not have to. It is a very grey area and I think that there is no right or wrong answer.
This is all very important in journalism because with more protection and security, Journalists can be more relieved when releasing information. They do not have to worry about their "anonymous" source ever becoming not anonymous, and they do not have to worry about being spied on, or search warrants.
This new bill gives journalist the right to refuse to disclose information or documents that could identify a source who had requested to remain anonymous. Search warrants will only be granted if a judge decides there is no other way to get it, or if the investigation becomes more important than the public's interest of protecting a source.
Click here to read more about the new law.
I think that this new law is a great way to help journalists out. They have to make very tough decisions in their work, and it is not always a black and white situation. This law gives them more security, and may make their decisions a little more easier. If they know that they're anonymous source can actually remain anonymous, they can inform the public on the important issues that they wish to address, but do not want to risk identifying a source. With the protection from search warrants, Journalists can be more open to releasing information.
There is no right or wrong action when it comes to releasing information that might be important for the public to know, because if they want to release it for the purpose of the public being in the know they should be allowed, but if they believe that it will risk the safety of the public and do not wish to release it than they do not have to. It is a very grey area and I think that there is no right or wrong answer.
This is all very important in journalism because with more protection and security, Journalists can be more relieved when releasing information. They do not have to worry about their "anonymous" source ever becoming not anonymous, and they do not have to worry about being spied on, or search warrants.
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