Ratings and Reviews for Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts Teach-Out

Some points of interest. Disappointingly biased information, lecturers tailored to a singular political bias which ruined the whole point of the course. Very little information included on actual applicable skills, too much roundabout theory and then pushing their own biases and idealising the mainstream media as a perfect and professional resource. Completely and wilfully ignorant about the massive failings of mainstream and tabloid journalism and the infection of editorial journalism that is presented to readers, listeners and viewers as news. The people behind this course need to seriously deal with their own biases and blindspots to make something that is genuinely useful to people wanting to use news as a source of information about the world and society.

Great attitude to share their knowledge to the rest of us. Using facts recently happens make reflexion in a scientific way. Thanks a lot.

Even handed introduction to journalism, current.

Good, structured summary of the problem, does give some guidance on the way forward, not deep enough - due to time constraints...

Learn how to spot phony baloney and think critically in the 21st century! This class is needed by anyone who uses the internet. I find the combinations of very well thought out video presentations & quizzes help me retain what is learned. I try to participate in discussion forums, but my internet connection is sketchy where I live, so sometimes my comments get through, sometimes not. I hope they keep this course available for a long time & possibly even bring a 2.0 version in the near future. Thank you to all who worked on

Informative and though-provoking.

As I expected Liberal News/Prof types complaining about all of the new news outlets that are biased, don't do the proper research and have made it difficult for “true” journalists. As usual, they pointed at President Trump as one of the major contributing factors. Since the mainstream media has been over 80% members and contributors to the Democratic Party, no wonder this course did not come out during Obama’s administration. It comes down to economics, if everyone was happy with the constant liberal reporting from the main street media then alternate news outlets would fail. So just maybe they should look at their inbred biases that drove readers/viewers to alternatives. Or they could just continue to bash Republican Neanderthals, explain how altruist they are and hope the deplorables come around, while they are forced to find a new job.

The teachout presents a thoughtful and timely discussion on how to distinguish between politicized fake news and facts. Reminiscent of the discussion the University of Michigan initiated in the Vietnam Era.

An excellent course talking about the importance of checking the credibility and integrity of sources, and the biases that we all have when assessing news coverage

Very good, timely and relevant course