Fake News And Media Literacy - 2017 COLLISION Conference Panel

Moderated by Ana Kasparian (Host, The Young Turks)

Panelists:
John Avlon (Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast)

Jared Grusd (CEO, HuffPost)

[magellan]

An interesting side note that is rarely mentioned: while the US has one of the world's widest free speech legislation, it also ranks rather low on the press freedom index (No. 43 of 180 countries) - which is a really odd development:

[djtybalt]

I'm a TYT member, they really let me down after the primary and gave that tired old "lesser evil" argument. I'm certainly part of the "Jimmy and Jordan" wing of TYT. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein.

[sherriemoon]

Is this supposed to be an ironic comedy show?

[alexc]

I'm surprised TYT are under news and political category they get criticized they call it harassing

[IshtarNike]

Why do people come here to hate watch TYT? So pathetic. Go support other channels instead of increasing their views and, thereby, their profits. DUH!

[hopelesslyhopeful]

It blows my mind how some people hate TYT so much they just have to watch every video and comment. Do they forget that their views and comments boost the video?

[lnbartstudio]

"Media Literacy" - pretty much an oxymoron. But thanks to TYT, in a world of Manymorons, is not total.

[TCt]

i dont get it. Ana said she faced sexism during this. where did that happen? how subtle was it that i missed it?

[Correctrix]

Stop saying "biasees", FFS. It's "biases".

[BruceWayne-jghv]

If all of you think that TYT is fake then why are you watching? In addition,  after watching this can you even explain what the point of it was...any of you? and the reason for all of your foul attitudes is because they told you something that goes against what you believe, and you did not want to hear that. Did you?

[coladict]

I would have ripped that guy's face off when he said "corporate citizens" as if it's a real thing.

[fernandof.]

Trolls are writing negative comments. They will only do that if The Young Turks are being effective, truthful, and people are listening to them. Great. Go Ana.

[damoj]

support HA Goodman.... TYT is trying to slander him

[tylerandtheresidents]

TYT trolls are their best fans! They watch every video and leave multiple comments!
THANK YOU

[JCloyd-ysfm]

Should news organizations be allowed to be a for-profit business?

[marineforces]

Since I am able to subscribe & unsubscribe what I want to see or not, I rather say : there is only fake news as long I would watch it. So consequently fake news is not necessary to be declared fake news, the "whole" picture than shows, that giving fake news a platform to be real, is a state of mind of the viewer, because if he wouldn't like to watch fake news, he could turn it off. I'll give u another example : America is to me not what others tell me what it would be, and it is not what others live it to be, America is just what I make out of it, America is a dream I carry in myself, which is or may become true, or not, who cares?, if not me.

[Lex_Thompson]

People you got to check your sources..

[kirby]

I feel like it is up to everyone to check themselves and to make sure that they don't just have one source of news intake. I do get my local paper, and I will watch my local news but i feel like the saving grace is late night news. Jimmy Kimble, the daily show etc. granted they are "corporate new" but they take stories that may suck and can put a comedic spin on them. So it doesn't suck to listen to depressing news stories every day.

[andcuriousrobson]

On the topic of providing context for where an articles' biases are in the spectrum of the world at large; I repeat from an earlier comment can we include
A list of assumptions: that is, what is the source of the expressed opinions
a Mission Statement: that is, what is the action the article points one to do, or the direction the article intends to steer the reader's view(?) (not sure of the word to express my thoughts)

[LinkRocks]

Trump trolls are severely triggered by this video.