Evaluating Media for Credibility CRT205 February 2‚ 2014 Shellisa Multrie Evaluating Media for Credibility The two programs that I chose to compare are Dateline and 60 Minutes. These two programs air at the same time on Sunday nights and are very similar in the stories that they choose to air. They are rivaling networks competing for the attention of the public for the same 6 o’clock spot. A lot of the stories that Dateline and 60 Minutes both air are things such as murder mysteries that haven’t
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Title | Assessing the Validity of Varying Points of View | Assessment A‚ Part 1: Assessing the Validity of Statements in a Discussion | Online education is not as effective as a traditional classroom | Reasonable | Unreasonable | | Getting a degree online gives you much more flexibility in terms of when you take classes | Reasonable | Unreasonable | | You can’t learn as much online as in a normal classroom | Reasonable | Unreasonable | | You get better
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You must consider where a source comes from and how relevant it is to your purpose‚ this is especially true for online sources. Most “.gov” and “.edu” websites are credible because they are risking the credibility of their school or department if they publish uncredible information. The riskiest sites are those that are “.com” sites because anyone can own that URL and anyone can publish anything they like without review. Most information physically printed
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Credibility of the CDC Website Jamie Wadas Chamberlain College of Nursing CDC.gov is a credible‚ easy accessible website that is the online channel that provides the public with reliable health information on many health subjects some of which include‚ “Data and Statistics‚ Healthy Living‚ and Injury‚ Violence and Safety” (CDC‚2014). The website provides information to groups such as students and educators‚ healthcare providers and individuals who are researching health issues (CDC‚ 2014)
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Media Bias in Political News The Political headline news story that I read was accurate and the story did give enough depth for you understand what was going on. The facts were all stated in this article. The story was about Romney losing to a state he had thought he had won over and how the election was going to be a close call. The article never had any bias on who they thought was going to win the election‚ which was a good thing. They stated Romney progress and had also stated Obama’s
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Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500 Foundational Concepts and Applications January 17‚ 2012 Evaluating a Website for Credibility In order to search for the reputable scholarly website one must remember two basic principles: not every website has scholarly related data and not all the data has empirical foundation. The first intention of going to www.google.com will leave one with 1000’s of non-specific results. "Google Scholar" website (http://scholar.google.com)‚ on the other hand
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Credibility of Ronald Reagan “The Great Communicator.” This is the most well known name our 40th president of the United States of America‚ Ronald Wilson Reagan was called. However‚ all presidents have their critics and for some he was known as “The Dangerous cowboy‚ B-movie actor‚ Intellectual lightweight‚ and Heartless right-winger.” (USA Today-2004) Ronald Reagan is one of the most well respected presidents of the United States and became a very popular person. Reagan was “The Great Communicator”
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The Sloan Consortium’s 2006 report stated that "in 2003‚ 57% of academic leaders rated the learning outcomes in online education as the same or superior to those in face-to-face. That number is now 62%‚ a small but noteworthy increase.” This is an indication of the growing prevalence of online education in society today‚ given the unprecedented advancement in technology. In my opinion‚ online degrees offered by universities need not be seen as a replacement for the traditional degrees‚ but instead
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Evaluating the credibility and validity of sources of information can be a very complex thing to do. The credibility of the sources of information depends on the reliability of the information used to support points. Different people have different standards for credibility. For example‚ when you’re in college and you have to write a research paper‚ everything you write has to be documented. This has to be done in great detail and you have to use a certain format such as APA or MLA style. There
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Website Credibility http://www.bestbuy.com/ Best buy is a very credible website. It is a well known retail store and has all the information to contacting any store or even corporate so you know who the author of the site is and that they have knowledge of the items that are sold which is facts not opinions. The information is not biased. It strictly states facts of the products they sell. The information is from an established organization and the information originate from the makers of the
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