Intellectual
Reading the news
A long read
Can you tell news from opinion?
You read the news most days. But what are you actually looking at? A page can hold many different things. Some report what happened. Some share what a writer thinks instead. Most people feel sure they can tell these apart. Let's test that feeling.
Your guess
In a 2018 study, people were asked if it was easy to spot news from opinion. How many said yes?
Sources
- Society of Professional Journalists, Code of Ethics
- Boykoff & Boykoff, Global Environmental Change, 2004
- Gallup/Knight Foundation, 2018