Connections Academy Online

ENGLISH 12A

Background:.The video explains which claims can be fact-checked, and why some sources are more reliable than others. In demonstrating how fact-checking works, this video references two other Retro Report videos: “Journalism and Media Literacy: McDonald’s Hot Coffee” and “The Moral Panic Over Superpredators.”These videos could be used as companion pieces to fully explore and contextualize the role fact-checking plays in combating erroneous (incorrect, over the top) media narratives. Objective: How do we distinguish between “bad facts” and “bad narratives” when critiquing media sources? How do fact-checkers analyze claims? Examine the tools that fact-checkers use to identify and interrogate claims, and put those skills into practice. Part 1: Background of Fact Checking (12 pts) Begin by viewing the Retro Report film How to Fact-Check History, and answer the questions below. How would you define a “claim”? How does it differ from an opinion? A claim is fact checking whatever that claim is saying something is true. Such as a sentence and then putting that claim on a trial. Meaning trying your best to verify each fact of the claim is true. A claim and opinion differ since a claim is a statement about something that you're claiming to be true and can be verified to try to see if it's true while an opinion is just your belief and judgment of the statement you're saying which is neither true or false. Describe Mr. Hogan’s process. List 3 or 4 steps he takes when factchecking a claim. 1. Get as close to the event as possible meaning finding evidence that was publicly released during the same time of whatever that claim is saying and was released and try to v