A good example is Alex Jones (a conservative radio show host) who often discusses conspiracy theories and news on his radio show (as well as his website) called InfoWars. The problem is that his news is filled with logical fallacies, such as the Slippery Slope (also known as The Camel's Nose fallacy) and the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
Jones shared his views about the Pizzagate incident back in December, and not only was it fake news with a bunch of unreliable "evidence" (as far as the FBI obtaining "secret codes" that are used by pedophiles when trafficking children), but he even started off with an irrelevant topic in the video.
Hey Natyah,
ReplyDeleteThis is a good post. I have a few suggestions though to maybe lengthen it a little. You could talk more about logical fallacies and examples of them like ad hominem, which is when you appeal to feelings rather than facts. Then you could find an article that has that type of fallacy in a news article. It's a good point to bring up the Pizzgate incident because you could tie that into fallacies by looking at articles behind the stories behind it. You could also talk about the video that made him start off with an irrelevant topic.
You have very good writing here! Hope you have a good weekend!
Megan
This is a good start--keep going here, and follow Megan's good advice on continued development. I think Jones recently came out and quasi-apoligized regarding Pizzagate. But then note this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2017/03/25/protesters-outside-white-house-demand-pizzagate-investigation/
ReplyDeleteEven if Jones "apologizes," does that stop the damage when his public runs with the accusations?
This is a good post. The only correction I would make is more examples of logical fallacies to lengthen this blog post. I like how you used the word fortunately to describe fallacies lol because its true.
ReplyDeleteThis post is a good beginning, I'm also trying to strengthen my posts also. I think researching more about the article would help and also putting some of the authors quotes in there too.
ReplyDeleteGood post Natyah,I have heard about Alex jones before and I like how you used him as an example. I like where your post is going I wish it could of been longer and maybe if you had added a hyper link to his website.
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