https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/see-something-say-something/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/03/13/see-something-say-something/#comment-6062 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:31:44 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=2381#comment-6062 Really interesting to take on a PSA with the fact-checking assignment. On the one hand, I think the poster only suggests those claims in its viewers’ minds if they are in the proper context — it doesn’t actually state these claims. But it does, in context, refer to a world where all three of these claims are accurate. This is the power of propaganda, which you do a nice job dissecting: it can suggest and imply powerful things without actually stating them. Your post made me think a lot about the context within which claims are made, and the effect that has on their accuracy.

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