Doing this conspiracy theory presentation was difficult. My partner and I decided to do the a conspiracy theory about Government Cloning. At first we were going to do two sides of the theory. One side showing that the theory is real and another side showing that the theory is fake. Doing further research, it was almost impossible to show any information about government cloning since it was so limited. Seeing as government cloning as a theory has already been seen on the internet, we just decided to stick with proving that it was real. At the time, since I saw some videos about government cloning, I did believe it, but not fully. Looking back, I'm not quite sure what to believe anymore considering that this project really made me question what's true and what's not true.
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Doing this hoax story was honestly not the best part of the project. I didn't have much interest in this mainly because I didn't find it interesting nor fun. It took me a while before I finally settled on a hoax story. I had other ideas for a hoax story but none of them seemed believable enough. When I finally settled on this idea, it was pretty easy to write since my partner, Dr. P, and I had already brainstormed ideas on what to include.
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This piece is something that all students had to write when we realized that hoaxing the school wasn't going to work. Each student wrote their own version. I wrote my piece on how I felt about this project and what obstacles I faced.
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Writing a police report for a crime scene was one way to help us get a better understanding on seeing if sources are credible or not. The point of this was to find evidence that either show how Mr. Winston committed suicide or he was murdered. From this activity, it helped me get a little better at detecting what is credible and what is not.
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To this day, I still believe that biased news stories and native advertising are two of the biggest threats journalism is facing right now. There are other threats facing journalism but I don't think any of them are as big as those two.
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For this ad campaign, we didn't really try to make is sound realistic. We honestly made it just for a good laugh. Making this ad was actually pretty fun because my group and I kept looking through pictures that would suit the headline. We went through many different photos before we finally decided on this one.
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Our exhibition was setup to look like a cafe. Guests would come in, pick up a baloney detector, grab an article off the wall, and sit down and read it. When they were done reading, a student would come up to them and then they would talk to the guest and say if they noticed anything unusual. Our cafe name was Café Faux. To help setup for exhibition, I brought in food that would be served during exhibition. I also made a poster that explained the project but it didn't get printed so I wasn't able to showcase it. A memory from exhibition that I thought was cool was when Alexandra and Trinity played a video that they had been working on. I thought that the video was good and it was funny seeing Dr. P surprised since he had no idea they made a video. I don't think anybody read my article, so that sucks. If someone else was going to do this exhibition, I would tell them to not be afraid of going up to people and talking to them. I was nervous when going up to people and talking to them because I felt like I was going to stutter or say something wrong.
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