User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Fake news and media bias webliography
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Fake news and media bias webliography is a list of resources compiled from Wikipedia articles and talk pages.
Talk:Fake news website[edit]
- Talk:Fake news website
- Mike Pearl (25 November 2016), "A Wikipedian Explains How Wikipedia Stays Reliable in the Fake News Era", Vice magazine, retrieved 25 November 2016,
According to Wikipedia, "Fake news websites publish hoaxes and fraudulent misinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media." In the aftermath of an election season dominated by hyperbole and sometimes outright lies, the press has been more focused than ever on how falsehoods spread. But somehow, Wikipedia itself remains mostly free of utter nonsense.
- Maggie Penman (21 December 2016), "Wikipedia Announces The Most Edited Articles Of 2016", National Public Radio, retrieved 22 December 2016,
In an era when fake news has become dangerously prevalent, the job of a Wikipedia editor might be more important than ever. To this point, the Wikipedia entry for "Fake news website" has become increasingly popular in the past month — with nearly 1,000 edits to the site in the first two weeks of December alone.
- Alyssa Pereira (December 21, 2016), "These were the most edited Wikipedia pages of 2016", San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved December 22, 2016,
The 2016 Presidential election sure brought the world a lot of stress. It also brought the world a lot of misinformation. That could be one reason why so many of the most edited Wikipedia pages of 2016 were politically related. ... Fake news website (747)
- Mike Pearl (25 November 2016), "A Wikipedian Explains How Wikipedia Stays Reliable in the Fake News Era", Vice magazine, retrieved 25 November 2016,
Fake News[edit]
When Breitbart news headlines read "As we noted when Republicans called Obama the “Food Stamp President", Factcheck.org reported that "14.7 million people were added to the food-stamp rolls during George W. Bush’s time in office. By comparison, the net gain under Obama now stands at under 11.6 million — and the number leaving the food stamp rolls has accelerated lately."[1]
Media bias[edit]
This list will be based on Wikipedia's own entries on each media outlet.
- Mother Jones is a politically progressive American magazine reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.[2][3][4]The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist and ardent opponent of child labor.[5]
- Christian Science Monitor
- Newsweek
- Politico
- Public Radio International
""Fake news is nothing new. Its impact has waxed and waned through American history. But there was a golden age of "yellow journalism," back in the 1890s, when fake news helped start a war. Yellow journalism has been defined as any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical manner."
— PRI
- Media Matters for America is a politically progressive media watchdog in the United States that "comprehensively monitor[s], analyze[s], and correct[s] conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".[6][7] MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock as a counterweight to the conservative Media Research Center.[8] It is known for its aggressive criticism of conservative journalists and media outlets, including its "War on Fox News."[9][10]
- The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851. The New York Times has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.[11][12][13] According to a 2007 survey by conservative-leaning[14] Rasmussen Reports of public perceptions of major media outlets, 40% saw the paper as having a liberal slant, 20% no political slant and 11% believe it has a conservative slant.[15] In 2004, a University of California, Los Angeles a flawed study by former fellows of a conservative think tank rated the The New York Times as the second-most liberal major newspaper in the study after the Wall Street Journal (85.1).[16] The Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America pointed out potential conflicts of interest with the author's funding, and political scientists, such as Brendan Nyhan, cited flaws in the study's methodology.[17][18]
- Voice of America
- Associated Press
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Reuters
- USA Today
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Vice magazine
- Rasmussen Reports "Time magazine has described Rasmussen Reports as a "conservative-leaning polling group."[19] The Washington Post called Rasmussen a "polarizing pollster."[20] John Zogby said that Scott Rasmussen has a "conservative constituency."[21] The Center for Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign.[22] The Washington Post reported that the 2004 Bush re-election campaign had used a feature on the Rasmussen Reports website that allowed customers to program their own polls, and that Rasmussen asserted that he had not written any of the questions nor assisted Republicans.[23] Rasmussen has received criticism over the wording in its polls.[24][25] Asking a polling question with different wording can affect the results of the poll;[26] the commentators in question allege that the questions Rasmussen ask in polls are skewed in order to favor a specific response. For instance, when Rasmussen polled whether Republican voters thought Rush Limbaugh was the leader of their party, the specific question they asked was: "Agree or Disagree: 'Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party—he says jump and they say how high.'"[25]
- Breitbart Breitbart News Network is a right-wing[27][28] or far-right[29][30][31][32][33][34] American news, opinion and commentary[35][36] website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart.
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December 21, 2005 Paul Waldman (December 21, 2005), Former fellows at conservative think tanks issued flawed UCLA-led study on media's "liberal bias", Media Matters for America, retrieved December 26, 2016[37]
- This article explains why the Groseclose-Milyo 2003 UCLA study is flawed.
September 2003 A Measure of Media Bias (PDF), September 2003, retrieved December 26, 2016 {{citation}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
- Political scientist Timothy J. Groseclose of UCLA and economist Jeffrey D. Milyo of the University of Missouri-Columbia claim to demonstrate that America's news content has "a strong liberal bias."[38] Groseclose is a scholar for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is an American libertarian think tank working with policy makers, lobbyists, and government officials to promote free-market approaches to public policy. The Mercatus Center was founded by Rich Fink as the Center for the Study of Market Processes at Rutgers University after the Koch family gave more than $30 million to George Mason University.[39] Members of the Board of Directors include Richard Fink, Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, Brian Hooks, President of the Charles Koch Foundation and Charles G. Koch, co-owner, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries.[40] is a member of the Mercatus Center's Board of Directors and the Koch brothers have During the George W. Bush administration's campaign to reduce government regulation, the Wall Street Journal reported, "14 of the 23 rules the White House chose for its "hit list" to eliminate or modify were Mercatus entries."[41]
Respected scholarly journals of communication and media studies[edit]
Respected scholarly journals of communication and media studies in which media bias is a relatively frequent topic of inquiry. Journal ranking
Impact factor reflects the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journalsThe highly-valued Science Citation Index (SCI) rankings are generated by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).[42][43][44][45]
- Journal of Communication | impact factor in 2014 = 3.16
- Communication Research
- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Impact factor in 2015 = 1.159
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Impact factor in 2014 = 1.352
- Political Communication Impact factor in 20 =
Articles about fake news[edit]
Comedic satire of the news[edit]
- The Onion is not a fake news website. They do not pretend to be real news.
- The People's Cube
Wikipedia protocol[edit]
- WP:UNDUE weight
- WP:NPV neutral
- WP:RS a useful guideline
- WP:RSN a dedicated noticeboard
Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#FORUM Wikipedia is not a forum
Wikipedia administrators[edit]
- User:DrFleischman
See also[edit]
- media bias
- half-truth
- disinformation
- misinformation
- guilt by association
- yellow journalism
- Black propaganda
A selection of potential references[edit]
- Online fake news phenomenon and yellow journalism:
- Woolf, Christopher (December 8, 2017). "Back in the 1890s, fake news helped start a war". Public Radio International.
""Fake news is nothing new. Its impact has waxed and waned through American history. But there was a golden age of "yellow journalism," back in the 1890s, when fake news helped start a war. Yellow journalism has been defined as any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical manner."
— PRI
- Soll, Jacob (December 18, 2016). "The Long and Brutal History of Fake News". Politico.
"During the Gilded Age, yellow journalism flourished, using fake interviews, false experts, and bogus stories to spark sympathy and rage as desired."
— Politico
- Chung-Yan, Chow (November 26, 2016). "How the Google and Facebook era drove news back to yellow press excesses". South China Morning Post.
""Suddenly, we are back in the same situation the yellow press faced two centuries ago."
— SCMP
- Swartz, Jon; della Cava, Marco (December 2, 2016). "The Fake web: why we're so apt to believe fake news, apps and reviews". USA Today.
""There's a grand tradition of fabricated news in America media, Miller and others point out, dating to the murky origin of the Spanish-American War in 1898, and the roles William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, and Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World played in stoking conflict to help them sell papers at the dawn of the yellow journalism era. Fake news has always been popular, whether it be The National Enquirer, Weekly World News, Globe," Miller says. "And innovation has made it possible to spread that news faster and deeper." A radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, Orson Welles' Halloween Eve hoax in 1938 about a Martian invasion on Earth, created a nationwide panic. It was also a hit."
— USA Today
References[edit]
- ^ Brooks Jackson (July 11, 2016), "Obama's Numbers July 2016 Update: Our quarterly update of statistical indicators on jobs, wages, debt, energy, illegal immigration, food stamps and more", FactCheck.org, retrieved December 27, 2016
- ^ "Here Are The 5 Most Liberal And Conservative Media Twitter Feeds". Business Insider. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ "Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation". The New York Observer. 2007-10-03. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ "Mother Jones names Monika Bauerlein Chief Executive Officer; Clara Jeffery, Editor-in-Chief". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "About Us", mediamatters.org. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Media Matters Employees To Vote On Union, Management To Stand Neutral". The Huffington Post. June 17, 2004. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
- ^ Rutenberg, Jim (May 3, 2004). "New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right". The New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ Gay Stolberg, Sheryl (December 19, 2010). "One Battle Won, Gay Rights Activists Shift Sights". The New York Times. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
- ^ Zengerle, Jason (May 22, 2011). "If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?". New York. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prizes – The New York Times Company". The New York Times Company. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
- ^ Rainey, James; Garrison, Jessica (April 17, 2012). "Pulitzer winners span old, new media". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- ^ Chabon, Michael. "The New York Times". Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- ^ Walsh, Bryan (December 7, 2009). "Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown?". Time. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
the conservative-leaning polling group Rasmussen Reports
- ^ "New York Times, Washington Post, and Local Newspapers Seen as Having Liberal Bias". Rasmussen Reports. July 15, 2007. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
- ^ Groseclose, Tim (December 2004). "A Measure of Media Bias". University of California – Los Angeles. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
- ^ "Former fellows at conservative think tanks issued flawed UCLA-led study on media's "liberal bias"". Media Matters. December 22, 2005. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
- ^ "Does the US Media Have a Liberal Bias?". Perspectives on Politics. August 6, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
- ^ Walsh, Bryan (December 7, 2009). "Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown?". Time. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ Blake, Aaron (September 17, 012), "Rasmussen: The GOP's cure for the common poll", Washington Post, retrieved April 23, 2014
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Horowitz, Jason (June 17, 2010), "Pollster Scott Rasmussen's numbers are firing up Republicans and Democrats", Washington Post, retrieved April 23, 2014
- ^ Campaign Consultants, Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Center For Public Integrity, 2003–2004
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
postwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bialik, Carl (September 25, 2010). "When Wording Skews Results in Polls". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b "Political Animal". Washington Monthly. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
- ^ "Do polls show 'majority support' for health plan?". PolitiFact.com. 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/14/breitbart-how-trump-pravda-muddied-the-waters-and-surfed-wave
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/right-wing-breitbart-news-network-rides-trump-wave-to-europe/article32774554/
- ^ Weigel, David (November 14, 2016). "Is Trump's new chief strategist a racist? Critics say so". Washington Post. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ Gidda, Mirren (November 16, 2016). "President Barack Obama Warns Against 'Us and Them' Nationalism". Newsweek. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ Murphy, Dan (June 20, 2015). "Beyond Rhodesia, Dylann Roof's manifesto and the website that radicalized him". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ "Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, so far". Associated Press. November 19, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ "AppNexus bans Breitbart from ad exchange, citing hate speech". The Japan Times. November 24, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ McGeough, Paul (November 19, 2016). "Make America hate again: how Donald Trump's victory has emboldened bigotry". Sydney morning Herald. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ Abbruzzese, Jason (March 15, 2016). "Breitbart staffers quit over the news site's 'party-line Trump propaganda'". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ "Is Breitbart.com Becoming the Media Arm of the 'Alt-Right'?". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ^ Paul Waldman (December 21, 2005), Former fellows at conservative think tanks issued flawed UCLA-led study on media's "liberal bias", Media Matters for America, retrieved December 26, 2016
- ^ A Measure of Media Bias (PDF), September 2003, retrieved December 26, 2016
{{citation}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Mayer, Jane (2010-08-30). "Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama". The New Yorker. Condé Nast Publications.
- ^ Mercatus Center Board of Directors
- ^ Bob Davis, "In Washington, Tiny Think Tank Wields Big Stick on Regulation," July 16, 2004. Accessed July 9, 2014.
- ^ Garfield, Eugene (2007). "The evolution of the Science Citation Index" (PDF). International Microbiology. 10 (1): 65–69. doi:10.2436/20.1501.01.10.
- ^ "Overwiew". Journal Citation Reports. Thomson Reuters. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
- ^ "About Us". Thomson Reuters. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
- ^ Venkatraman, Archana (Sep 2009). "Journals cherish IF status symbol: but impact factor is not the only citation metric that matters". Information World Review: 7.