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Part I (end of section 2) chapter 10 (104-116)
Part II chapter 19 (238-251)

Radio show hoax (ch8) then tv show hoax (ch9)
They compared the tv one to Blair Witch (hand held cameras making it seem like ordinary ppl documenting real experience) but it also sounded like inspiration in another direction for The Ring (watchers are the next affected) which came out a few years later
And on polls and their potential manipulation (ch18)

Party I Ch 6 Yellow Journalism+7 Fake News at War
Part II Ch 17 (202-221) How to Spot Fake News Articles

Part I Ch 5 (48-62) EAPoe + hoaxes in news
Part II Ch 16 (189-201) Bias in News Media - cld tch whole crs abt this w/the major newspapers’ handling of Palestine. NYTimes wrt whole article abt r*pe during Hamas attack hd no basis; referred to Palestinia children as minor men or women; refusd to use g word even aftr Holocaust scholars used it + still not reported on Israeli soldiers’ r*pes of Palestinian detainees

Experimenting on updating progress since I’m reading simultaneously from part I and part Ii

Part II chapter 15 (176-188)
On Biases: cognitive dissonance, negativity bias, and confirmation bias - if I hadn’t already seen numerous post online (haha) on all of these this would be good info. Always good to be reminded tho. Her example of Pistorius was a good one as well

Part I (History) chapters 3-4
Also read Part II (Analysis/Action) chapter 14 (166-176)

I’m hoping I can push through this
In a lot of ways it’s being engagingly written but it’s also…very basic. Like jr. high level. And it feels very obvious. I’m not even sure this stuff would be new to a 7th grader, but then again, perhaps.

Short, bite-sized chapters at least

Very engaging read framed around stories from history