Who's To Blame For Fake News Summary

Barton Swaim’s The Washington Post online article, “Who’s to blame for fake news? America’s real newsrooms” posted on December 12, 2016, criticizes how people are naive when analyzing media. Swaim faces modern issues that affect journalism and speechwriters. As a journalist, being the first to get the story out, Swaim could not let misleading and inappropriate information get out to the public which is why his exigence is to inform the audience of what they are exposed to with the media. Media—TV, news, magazines, or blogs, can affect people, yet it works both ways with an audience to create content. The reflection that media has upon society as a whole, is usually taken in as a personal relation to it. It is important that we can understand the issues that carry the media regarding media representation. Swim targets adults with a good understanding of the topics he mentions; adults with high education backgrounds. Media is dishonest and untrustworthy, …show more content…
“All of us, whatever our political attitude, have read what we regard as essentially false or inaccurate or wrongheaded stories in mainstream news sources. Does that make the reporters of these stories perpetrators of fake news?” (Swaim). Swaim is approaching the audience by causing curiosity. By mentioning, “all of us” Swaim shows pathos by showing an emotional appeal towards the reader. Swaim variety of rhetorical question reinforces views on the reader and persuades them with the truth. Ultimately, a close analysis of the article “Who’s to blame for fake news? America’s real newsrooms” shows how media acts of representation, not a reflection of the real world. Fake news misleads the media from the real facts. Media, where raw footage, unverified information, and concocted stories get out. Liberal bias in the mainstream news media is real and is used to influence the