Malikah Black
January 24, 2017
Rhet 102
Professor Hays
A Presidential Election Surrounded by Falsified News
“Who are you voting for in the 2016 presidential election?” “I don’t know Trump
has a blonde toupee that doesn’t match his real hair, and Hillary is a woman.” These aspects
doesn’t contribute to politics, but they represent the significance of how social media can
be a factor to the voting polls. I felt that neither of the 2016 presidential candidates were
politically suitable to govern the United States. However, many based their decisions from
web sources, and not logical news reports. The loyalty partisans had to disregard their
candidates’ bias and retaliate with their own, represented how their logic, emotion, and
credibility toward the other candidate were unsympathetic. All they wanted was to win,
and if that mean publishing falsified information they weren’t concerned. Therefore if you
read a source online be careful when reading, because it may not be truthful.
Partisanship is the political way of winning elections! This crucial theory was
Amanda Taub’s main idea in her article titled “The Real Story About Fake News Is
Partisanship.” In this article Ms. Taub explains how each presidential candidate has
partisans (loyal companions) fulfilling their duty to make the other candidate appear
Commented [BMS1]: Your correct my before title “To
Believe or Not To Believe” wasn’t specific enough to my
overall thesis of this paper. I changed the title to correlate
to my thesis in this this paper
Commented [BMS2]: “Signification” is a word, but I may
have used it incorrectly in this sentence. I changed the word
to significance.
Commented [BMS3]: Thank you I feel this sentence has
the key components needed for a sentence which was
stated in your comment: clear, expressed opinion, and
complex idea.
Commented [BMS4]: I’m also having difficulty
understanding this sentence as well. I chose to omit this
sentence for my audience so I won’t confuse me and my
audience.
Commented [BMS5]: I agree with your comment. The
word “were” would not be best suited in this sentence
based upon plural and singular.
Commented [BMS6]: I agree with your comment the
sentence format is in past tense, so “concern” should be in
past tense form as well.
Commented [BMS7]: Thank you I feel this sentence really
is meaningful to me, because I dislike untrustworthy
sources, so I want to inspire others to also not like them.
Commented [BMS8]: I agree with your comment. Since
the crucial theory in the sentence is “Taub” it should be an
apostrophe stating the author owning it.
Commented [BMS9]: I agree with your comment. I
changed the single quote marks to quotation marks,
because when a title of an article appear in your paper you
must place the title in quotation marks.
Commented [BMS10]: I agree with your commit the
“have” wasn’t used correctly in the sentence. The
presidential candidate followers is past tense, so the
sentence should have “has.”
unreliable. In her article her support toward her idea mention supporters’ opinion to not
believe their candidates bias online, although it may be accurate. She states “Partisan bias
now operates more like racism than mere political disagreement,” although I don’t agree
with the fact that partisan is similar to racism, because racism is still classified in political
groups. I agree on the obedience the partisans have for their candidates are similar to being
in a racial group. This method represent fake news being published and disregarded.
Commented [BMS11]: I believe your comment the word
used in the sentence was “accruable” which appears in the
sentence as confusing. I instead changed the word to
accurate, because its best suited in this sentence.
Commented [BMS12]: Thank you for your comment. I
didn’t really notice that I used a signaling phrase in my
paper, but since I did feel proud of myself.
Commented [BMS13]: I agree with your comment. I
combined the fragment sentence starting with although to
the previous sentence. The sentence now is not used
inappropriately.
theory was an Encyclopedia main idea in the entry titled ‘Fake news websites in the United
Commented [BMS14]: I’m not certain if I agree with your
comment Professor. According to Dictionary.com partisan is
used as a noun and an adjective. I feel my use of partisan is
placed correctly in the sentence. If I’m wrong I will like to
know other suggestions for this word in my sentence.
States.’ In this entry it explains how a creator named Marco Chacon take news reports, and
Commented [BMS15]: Thank you for your comment. I try
to give as much helpful advice as I can to my audience.
The internet is a place of fact and fiction, so don’t believe everything you read. This
reveal if the reports are truthful or not. A creator named Paul Horner were creating falsified
articles about certain candidates. He explained how “articles appeared legitimate at the top
and became increasingly absurd as the reader progressed.” Clarifying his reason for why
readers are so gullible when reading certain online news reports, because they believe the
company credibility. Although the reports may be falsified. I agree with the fact certain
sources appear as credible might be fictional. I remember I saw an article online stating
Eminem and Drake were criticizing each other through their rap songs. After clicking on
the site, and reading until the end the author of the article said “the rappers weren’t
criticizing each other, and he post the title for more viewings.” I was upset, but it was an
accurate statement. I learn to not trust others theories, because it could be a hunch.
The author of ‘Snopes.com’ David Mikkelson used his website, so readers can have
“a touchstone of rumor research.” Similar to the Encyclopedia entry on Marco Chacon who
Commented [BMS16]: I agree with your advice
Professor, because I wasn’t using the correct word needed
for the sentence. “Accruable” is not a word and if so I’m not
using the word correctly in my sentence.
Commented [BMS17]: I agree with your comment. I
shouldn’t say “always,” because that will say that I’m a
writer that never believes someone else theories which is
not true. I replaced “always” with it could be, because
sometimes you just don’t know if a source is accurate or
not.
also created a site to help readers know the difference in factual and fictional web sources.
Each source used politics to explain how social media took over the 2016 presidential
election, and why voters accepted to vote on popularity. Voters weren’t focusing on
candidates political policies. Voters instead based their votes on social media drama and
the most overdramatic contestant won.
Commented [BMS18]: I agree with your comment my
sentence was a run-on sentence. I decided to split the
sentence into two and create two new sentences being my
closing statement.