Fanning The Flames

To add onto my previous post I have attached an article from Forbes that focuses on maintaining critical thinking skills, a skill that is imperative to have in a time where information is available endlessly online. And unfortunately depending the possible agendas behind those sources, the information may not be reliable or factual. When viewing news, especially on social media, it is important to use fact checkers to verify. The Forbes article mentions some such as; Snopes, Poltifact, FactCheck.org, Washington Post fact Checker and others. I have attached the article that goes into further detail of how to avoid fake news and think critically in a time where social media is so prominent.  Forbes Article on Critical Thinking https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewarnold/2018/02/27/how-to-maintain-critical-thinking-in-the-modern-world-of-new-media/?sh=6af8b00350e5

When studying politics, it is imperative to be able to think critically when viewing media sources. Although some sources are more biased than others, biases are everywhere in the media. Therefore, it is incredibly important to think critically when reading media sources that discuss politics and current events. Some questions to critically access a news article providing certain information would be,  1.     Is this a valid/ reliable source? 2.     How biased (generally) is this source? 3.     What agenda might this source be attempting to achieve by publishing this information?  In addition to questions above there are many other ways to spot biases in media to better improve critical thinking skills when processing information relating politics and current events, but for this post I have decided to focus on these 3 major ones to keep this introductory post sweet and simple!