Fake News Madness
A SAPIENT Being s Guide to Spotting Fake News Media and How to Help Fight and Eliminate It
By
Corey Lee Wilson
Fake News Madness
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Contents
Acknowledgements
I owe a debt of gratitude to the following for heavily borrowing at times pieces of their and/or outright sections. I do this unashamedly to use the sapient phrase, if it aint brokedont try to fix it. Most of the borrowed works and research cannot be improved uponso why try? Its better to assemble these meaningful parts, profound messages, and eloquent arguments into a cohesive whole, told with high school and college students in mind, and thats what Ive done and where my talent lies.
Below in alphabetical order are the major contributors to The SAPIENT Being that I borrowed verbatim, quoted, and conceptualized much of their content from a little to a lot. Wherever this happened, I did my best to acknowledge my source. If I didnt at times within the 15 chapters, I did so intentionally because doing so would have distracted from their message. Nonetheless, they are more than covered in the References section.
Bozell III, L. Brent: As the founder and president of the Media Research Center (MRC ) , Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America and MRC and its news, research and reporting bureaus critique the bias in the national media and how they undermine American democracy. Bozell and Tim Graham are co-authors of Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump and a significant portion of the content from their 2019 book was used for Fake News Madness particularly Chapter 1 and more contributions to Chapters 2, 8, 14 and 15. Bozells MRC organization contributed as well to Chapters 1, 4 , 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15.
Dice, Mark: Is the author of The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions and he contributed heavily to Chapters 6, 7 and 14.
Noyes, Rich: As the Research Director at the Media Research Center (MRC ) and senior editor of the MRC's blog, NewsBusters .org., Noyes has authored or co-authored a significant portion of MRCs authoritative Special Reports and articles and many of them were very relevant to Fake News Madness and used in Chapters 4, 10 and 14.
Pew Research Center: Pew surveys and reports provide the backbone of various media statistics and they were used throughout Fake News Madness in Chapters 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 15.
Prager U: Prager University is an American nonprofit organization that creates videos on various political, economic, and philosophical topics from a conservative perspective. The university was created by conservative Dennis Prager , an American syndicated talk show host, to teach fundamental concepts. Its content is sapient and relevant, and they educate millions of Americans and young people about the values that make America great. Prager Us contribution to Chapter 7 was significant and they also contributed to Chapter 14.
As the author of Fake News Madness, I also have a confession to make concerning my war against fake news journalism going all the way back to my college days. I say up front, most likely, because I cannot prove that my campus newspaper The Poly Post didnt intentionally post an article in the Cal Poly Pomona campus newspaper titled: Thefts, Vandalism, and High-Speed Pursuit Keep Campus Cops Busy! that featured my arrest for reckless driving on campus thirty-five years ago to get back at me for correcting their newspaper articles time and again on fake news about current events.
The Poly Post continued their fake news choosing high speed pursuit when there were no speed limits brokenthe only laws broken, which I readily admit to breaking, were failure to pull-over for a smog ticket which I choose to avoid until off campus knowing I had an expired driver license and I didnt want to get in trouble again on campus, and earn a third strike against me considering I was already on double-secret probation and there would likely be an expulsion from college for a third offense!
And yet, through some miracle, I was not expelled from college and instead placed on triple secret probation . Yes! Triple secret probation! Im not making this up and if youre a fan of the comedy classic Animal House, you know what double secret probation is. Triple secret? Never heard of it youre saying.
Neither did I, until I was first placed on disciplinary probation for a fraternity kidnap gone wrong, then placed on disciplinary probation a second time two months later for being the unlucky fraternity officer whose signature was on an unsanctioned toga party event form, and my third offense was failure to pull over (but not in excess of speeding limit) on campus after I borrowed a friends un-smogged truck to tow our fraternity chariot to campus where I dropped it off and headed back to the frat house reasoning that campus cops cant pursue you off campus. Wrong!
Regardless, I became the only college student in the USA to graduate in 1985 on triple-secret probation and did so with a 3.26 GPA in Economics, recognized for my outstanding academics, leadership, and extra-curricular activities by Whos Who of American College Students, became President of my Delta Tau Chapter of The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity winning Cal Poly Pomonas first ever Poly Gold Award, and topped it off by being selected as my fraternitys Shideler Award winner for being the most outstanding graduating senior in the USA.
Nonetheless, my first bitter experience with fake news journalism didnt stop me from fighting and helping to eliminate it as the subtitle of this book states: A SAPIENT Beings Guide to Spotting Fake News Mediaand How to Help Fight and Eliminate It. This is a primary reason why I choose the fake news topic as the first one to be published in the 50 MADNESS series of booksand the one I most highly recommend reading first before reading any of the othersbecause until you first learn to spot fake news and its mediayou wont be able to help fight and eliminate it as well as identify the hundreds of other issues in the MADNESS series of books.
