Detecting Deception

Tools to Fight Fake News

By: Amanda Sturgill

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Hardcover | 19 August 2020

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160 Pages

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Teaching fact checking and verification is an essential part of journalism education. When a confusing media environment makes it possible for interviewees to say things like "Truth is not truth" and "The president offered alternative facts,"students need to go beyond traditional reporting standards and be trained to consider the presentation of reality in deciding if a statement is misleading or patently false. Detecting Deception brings the concepts of logical argument taught in speech communication to supplement the verification techniques that are the stock and trade of any media professional. Pithy and practical, Sturgill draws from present day news examples to help students recognize the most common bad arguments people make. Detecting Deception is an essential tool for training future journalists how to build stories that recognize faulty arguments and hold their subjects to a higher standard.

Features:
-engagingly written by a reporter turned professor
-classic and current examples of logical fallacies from speeches, press conferences and reports
-each chapter will have two illustrations/cartoons to help students grasp concepts and easily remember faulty argument structures
-short and flexible for use as a supplement in the classroom or on the resource shelves of the newsroom

Industry Reviews

Detecting Deception is both readable and fun. Amanda Sturgill uses references from pop culture and current events to engage readers, and the Your Turn sections engage interactive thought. Students, professors and others will benefit from exploring the strategies used by senders of messages to build a case; however, Sturgill goes farther to give her audience strategies to identify and combat weak arguments. The work is well researched and includes insightful references

--Michael Ray Smith, author of Fake News, Truth-Telling, and Charles M. Sheldon's Model of Accuracy

This practical guide was designed to help train potential journalists "to spot problematic reasoning so it can be questioned or corrected." Dividing her text into three parts, Sturgill employs contemporary news stories throughout to illustrate how facts can be presented in misleading ways. Each chapter ends with a "Your Turn" section, presenting reflective questions that challenge readers to practice the skill introduced in the chapter at hand. An appendix that includes possible answers to the questions makes this a resource that can be independently consulted by individuals seeking self-study.... More practical and pedagogical than similar works...this volume will serve as an affordable and accessible handbook for undergraduate students studying journalism, or any reader interested in improving their news evaluation skills. Recommended.

-- "Choice Reviews"

Truth is difficult to discern in today's news media, so this intelligent and pragmatic book arrives none too soon. Filled with relevant examples and new insights, Sturgill instructs us on how to sift through the plethora of messages that characterize today's complex and often divisive media environment; she does so with refreshingly crisp and clear writing. This is the foundation for identifying good journalism that we've been waiting for.

--Daniel A. Stout, Professor Emeritus of Communication, Brigham Young University Hawaii

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