{"id":25668,"date":"2019-08-05T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:45:46","slug":"post-fake-news-and-the-hard-work-of-real-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2019\/08\/05\/post-fake-news-and-the-hard-work-of-real-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Fake News and The Hard Work of Real Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For some time now, we have heard the term \u201cfake news,\u201d but nobody ever stops to tell us what it is. Fake news is false news stories, often spread as propaganda on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the opportunity to sit down with journalist Wayne Baker and get his take on fake news. Wayne Baker is a journalist with the Dayton Daily News. He has been working with the company for five years now but has been a journalist for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Dayton Daily News<\/a> is part of the Cox Media<\/a> umbrella and there, he covers the south suburbs on breaking news. He also works on investigative news stories and upcoming stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When sitting down with Baker, he helped shed light on the topic of fake news and how dangerous it could be. He described fake news as a \u201cdisappointing epidemic\u201d because it discounts the hard work of journalists who work well past the standard eight hour days. A lot of the work journalists do cannot be measured in \u201cwork hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot of background research, interviewing and investigating that goes into an article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baker says \u201cwhen you\u2019re out on the scene bringing stories out, there is nothing fake about that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0A perfect example he used were the tornadoes that struck Dayton on Memorial Day. Some of the people who were out getting the facts and assessing damage were journalists. Journalists sometimes go out in very dangerous situations just to provide viewers and readers with the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that people risk their lives and go out on a limb to provide us with facts is \u201cdisturbing\u201d, according to Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSome of us heard the term \u201cfake news\u201d used for the first time by President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. Baker says, \u201ctrying to put CNN, other \u2018talk shows\u2019 and journalism under the same umbrella is very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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