January 26, 2021
One media expert told Newsy more and more news sites with local-sounding names only masquerade as a local news organization.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
As part of National News Literacy Week, we re looking into different ways misinformation and hyperpartisan content is making its way into our everyday lives.
For months, a top story at the Michigan Star has been “The Biden Family Scandal.” The Tennessee Star and Minnesota Sun kept the same story profiled in large font in their banner headlines.
Look deeper at each of the sites, and the majority of the other news stories are also the same.
What some might miss with the very local-sounding names of the news sites: Much of their original content comes from Tennessee, the base of Star News Digital Media, a company whose chief executive officer helped form the National Tea Party.
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As Trump Leaves Office, Duke Experts Warn of White Supremacists Lasting Threat
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In response to a coup attempt on behalf of Donald Trump, Duke University experts have participated in a series of virtual discussions about the threats of white supremacy, threat of insurrection, and domestic terrorism.
âAnytime you have a mob willing to overpower and injure people to get inside the Capitol to overwhelm and harm Congressional representatives, American democracy has a problem,â said Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith, who participated in the January 13 discussion entitled âInsurrection, Policing and Democracy.â
Noting reports of ongoing investigations to determine if members of Congressâalong with retired and active police and military officersâmay have had a hand in the violence âis incredibly worrying,â she added.
We re used to this kind of editorial decision when it comes from television or print news.
These outlets make choices every day about what to cover, who to interview, who to publish in their op-ed sections, and who to invite as talking heads. They even decide when to air video messages from the president and how to contextualize them.
If this decision-making seems strange to us in the context of social media, it s partly because platforms have spent the last 10-plus years telling us that they aren t media companies - that, in fact, they re revolutionizing public discourse, removing media gatekeepers, and democratizing the spread of information.