fake news

(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.)   ·  Fake News  · Today the media talks about the alarming impact of "fake news." No doubt that in our instant, mass communication world, one fraudulent or deceptive story can cause massive confusion with grave consequences. Check out this "exaggeration" post card from 1937 showing a rather large grasshopper that died of lead poisoning. Similar manipulated, tall-tale images had been in circulation since the … [Read more...] about Creative Writing: Fake News