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Question

Evaluate the credibility of the following list of sources; newspaper, magazine, television programs, movies, television news reporting, the internet, and advertising. What factors may influence their claims.

Answer 1

Newspaper: a credible source if the writer isn't known to be bias and the documents sourced can be easily found and not obscure or information based off of a person whose "identity is kept secret".

Magazine: These are generally used for entertainment and doctored photos are common. Not a good source, especially since bias writing is more common.
Television: see above.
Movies: see above.

Television news reporting: It's harder for people to hide their own ideas during this because of tone of voice, questions asked, etc. They can cut bits and pieces and string them together to make a story look like what they want it to look like in order to become more popular than their opponents. It's a heavily-based "get the story first and win, it doesn't matter if you're right" media.

Internet: EVERYone's biased and lying when it comes to the 'net. Not a good place to look for information unless you're absolutely sure the person it's a nutjob.

Advertising: They want money! Why should they care about facts? Lying, making up statistics, using biased works, etc. are abound when it comes to this area because it all boils down to what will make the consumer believe and then buy. Given that people can be quite gullible, this isn't hard to do.

Answer 2

First of all, is this your homework? If so, make sure you let your teacher know you got help off the internet before submitting your answer!

As previous responders have said, you evaluate credibility of these various media based on who is "behind" them, and what their purpose is. A source can be considered more credible if it presents information in an objective way, and presents more than one side of an issue. A source might also be considered more credible if it's not for profit, or at least if a majority of its funds do not come from advertisers or another source that wants to control the content of the information or programming.

Lastly, sometimes one source is credible in a certain area, but not in another.

Answer 3

Not sure exactly what you're asking, but every news source has to do their research, they just can't say 'well today so and so sis this or that' just because they want to.

however some news sources are better at this researcher than others, peoples bias come into play kinda the "i don;t want to hear it thing" so they don't go to deep into the research.

Do your own research find an article you like, one that is not to obscure, and contact the people involved and get all sides of the story, then find that story on the TV news, Internet, newspaper and so on, see who's closest to what your research told you.

Answer 4

The biggest thing that influences all of these is the views of the leaders of each organization. For example, CNN leans politically to the left/Democtratic/Liberal side while Fox News leans the other direction.

Does that help?

Answer 5

Advertising affects credibility.

Answer 6

One thing to consider: It is legal for the media to lie to us.
Normally, smaller, independent news sources are more reliable.

Answer 7

Who wrote it, who are their sources, do they have any biases (as in advertising), do they cover both sides of an issue?

Answer 8

Owner Politics,
Writter Politics,
Audience area and age
Story being addressed

Answer 9

Who owns them is a huge factor. Who wrote it is another big one.

Answer 10

uhh id understand