Blog Post #4

The relation between Steinmetz and Burkhardt’s articles to Clive Thompson’s is tricky to pick out because they seem so different when first reading them. I think that they are related by the fact that they all want readers to be aware that they are reading fake news regardless of how they get to that point of realization. Steinmetz shows this when she says “Having a well-informed citizenry may be, in the big picture, as important to survival as having clean air and water.” Burkhardt leads me to believe this when she says ” Many people share fake news without ever having read the content of the article. Sharing of fake news, whether because it is amusing or because people think it is real, only exaggerates the problem.” Lastly, Thompson gives the sense of this throughout his whole article. He starts the article out by giving a whole background on where media originated from and the first papers. Thompson points out that news today has become more partisan, which isn’t a bad thing. I think using Thompson’s article in my essay will not only round out my essay but strengthen it too. It could help strengthen and round my essay because his viewpoint is so different yet has the same outcome that the other two do. Having an argument brought up that differs vastly from what has already been introduced makes for a better essay.