The article focuses on the recent case of Fake news that has been highly present in media the past few months. Interestingly enough it offers a much more analytical and statistical approach on the war against Fake News. The article proposes the ideology from military strategies as it states that the war against fake news is purely boiled down to "narratives vs facts". The mainstream media is genuinely not doing enough to hold the Trump administration to account and it can do so by focusing more on narratives rather than facts and textual media. This is due to the fact that the masses no longer want long drawn out texts that are written by journalists but rather narratives that can be packed into images and videos and shared across social media.
- "The mainstream media can fight back against the poisoning of our public sphere by giving people narratives they can understand"
- "We now have to reckon with artfully faked opinion as well."
- The first thing, wrote Adam Tinworth, is to recognise the real nature of the war in which journalists are now involved.
- Among the many sites on the web that relay high-level commentary on foreign affairs is the Center for Global Strategic Monitoring
- In order to carry out this laudable mission, the site lists an impressive stable of “experts”
Personally, I definitely agree with the way the article talks about the best way to tackle fake news. I genuinely believe that although fact checking is a step in the right direction, it is ultimately not enough to take down the beast that is Fake news. I wholeheartedly agree that the alt-right has had a much easier route of sharing narratives in the form of videos and images across social media to spread a message compared to the generic facts and texts journalists are making. I genuinely believe that positive attitudes and narratives would essentially be a way to beat fake news at it's own game.
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