Recognize evaluative word choices to detect biases and propaganda devices used by speakers
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Everyone is going to get the new smart phone when it comes out this weekend.
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What technique is being used in this statement? “ Find magic in Enchanted Kingdom.”
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Everyone is going to get the new smart phone when it comes out this weekend.
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What technique is being used in this statement? “ Find magic in Enchanted Kingdom.”
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What technique is being used in this statement?I am Michael Jordan and I like Nike.
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What technique is being used in this statement? This medicine has been used by people since ancient history, therefore it must be an effective way to treat diseases.
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What technique is being used in this statement? If a brand of snack food is loaded with sugar and calories, the commercial may boast that the product is low in fat,which implies that it is also low in calories- showing only positive information and omit the truth about the product.
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It is a preference, an opinion, or a tendency.
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It is the systematic attempt to manipulate people's opinion, attitudes, beliefs, and actions with words, images usually through mass media.
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The use of positive or negative words or words with connotation can strongly influence the reader or viewer.
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To detect bias, always consider where the news item “comes from.”
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An editor can express a bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item. Within a given story, some details can be ignored, and others included, to give readers or viewers a different opinion about the events reported.
