Media Bias Persuasive Speech

I. Attention Step (attention-getting, written word-for-word)

A. Angelina Jolie is dead. Tragic, right? I bet it was an overdose or something. Divorce will do that to you. And did you hear that like 25 black girls disappeared in DC in one day? And no one even seems to care.

What do all of these claims have in common? They are fake. But in most cases this did not stop them from being spread by news outlets and social media like a fire. Let’s take the disappearance of the black girls in DC for instance. Many celebrities picked up the story and a lot of anger and fear was incited. But this story was not all fake. There were a number of missing black girls from the DC area, but the statistic was from over three months, not a single day and many

Need Step [Introduction of the problem] \

A. FIRST: So, what exactly is fake news?

Like I said before fake news is information spread usually through the mass and social media that contains large amounts of info that is not true. This does not necessarily mean that minor mistakes such as spelling or minor facts errors make a piece false news.

The falsity must have stronger ramifications than an angry woman whose name was misspelled. In school and training, journalists are taught to be as fair, accurate and balanced as possible. But today’s media spear has new things being introduced every day, such as the emergence of satire sites such as the Onion.

SECOND: Here is an example of the impact that fake news can have on one’s reputation. According to the Washington Post in an article by Adam Taylor, at first glance many see the articles produced by the Onion as being real, at least until they see the source. But for some, they get

Because of its content, he quickly became enraged and made a long video rant about what he thought was true. Even though the video was pulled, in today’s world, anything that is posted is likely to live on forever and I’m sure he is still the butt of many jokes and this has happened to many foreign dignitaries.

THIRD: But the bigger problem for us is at a smaller more individual level in society.

FOURTH: Here are the results to an online survey filled out by random people that I created. Everyone believed that fake news was a thing and most stated that it was in fact a problem in today’s society. The majority of people say that they do or at least have fact checked articles as you can see here in my graph. But there are many statistic that say that people are still fooled.

B. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger, a Sanford study shows that most teens cannot decipher between what news is real and what is fake.

C. Cory Turner for NPR news believed that because of this, education about fake news must start young. And that makes sense, especially in today’s world where everyone started at young ages have access to the internet and social