Journalism 120 - Janet Jardine

When first looking at the photo I believed that there was a large nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant in Japan as said in the post of the photo. Without going forward with my research there is not enough evident information to confirm whether this news is factual. I then began researching if a nuclear disaster occurred on March 11 in Japan. I put the information given from the photo into Snopes.com and found out that it is in fact false information provided with a real photo. After reading and watching several videos that relate to the different topics I have found many things that interest me which I will discuss. First, fake news is something that is very common in not only today's society, but in previous years too. "Yellow Journalism" became known in the late 1800's when two newspaper journalists became in competition with the "yellow kids" after one copied the other. Satire news is notably more distinguishable than fake news

The topic that I have chosen to do my assignment on is the website The Intercept . This website allows people to share information with journalists while keeping it anonoymous. The Intercept consists of several jounalists who recieve people's information/issues unknowily. Over the years this website has won many awards for its outstanding skills and success.  This is a link where I found more information on said topic. I believe that The Intercept is doing things the right way and will continue to have a lot of success. I think that it is important for information to be anonomymous for privacy reasons. The only downfall with not knowing where the facts are coming from is journalists would not know whether the information is reliable/factual. This issue is relatable to everyone because anyone can share their facts and thoughts online with the journailsts. It is also relatable to journalists because it makes it easy for journalists to recieve information. Once again, I believe th