Issue 9 Does Fake News Mislead the Public?

Issue 9 Does Fake News Mislead the Public?


Fake news in our society today plays a bigger part in the way that younger viewers are getting their information. This source of information raises the question on how creditable the information that these young viewers are getting from “fake news.”

In the article No Joke by Julia R. Fox, Glory Koloen, and Volkan Sahin talk about Fake news being a negative source of news. They talk about the election year in 2004 and younger voters played a bigger portion then normal with that number is increasing. The age of people voting under 30 is more than we have seen in 12 years. With this number increasing they look at where this portion of the population is getting their information from. They found that a big portion of this population gets there information from other sources then the daily news and more comically based news like the Daily Show. A research center surveyed that 21% of under 30 voters said, “they relied regularly upon comedy shows such as The Daily show with Jon Steward for complain information.” This is a big portion that rely on Fake news that in a lot of cases don’t give u the right information.

The Other article Late- Night Learning talked about news and how comedy based news is part of new way people can learn public affairs. They article states that these helps improve recognition and recall. Witch I think is not completely true, the article even states that Steward from the Daily Show can’t believe that there is a portion of people that just rely on his show for there campaign information or news. Shows like these were made for entertainment and not a source of news.