{"id":165,"date":"2014-09-21T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/gobehindthenews\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=165"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:25:50","slug":"unverifying-accepted-facts","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/snhu-gobehindthenews\/chapter\/unverifying-accepted-facts\/","title":{"raw":"Unverifying Accepted Facts","rendered":"Unverifying Accepted Facts"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>NBC News producer on \u201cunverifying\u201d accepted facts<\/h1>\r\n<strong>Summary: <\/strong>\r\n\r\nTrue, verification is a key to becoming news literate \u2013 but what happens when previously \u201cverified facts\u201d later turn out to be untrue? In cases of wrongful convictions, the process of verification often means you first have to \u201cunverify\u201d events that virtually everyone else thought had actually happened.\r\n\r\n<strong>Video:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nReinvestigating Wrongful Convictions\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/stonybrook.edu\/file\/d\/0B6mgAy5NdTA3dnJKRkl2d0hCalE\/preview\" height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Ll5Ah9g7ffPZvkLhvt9zWUngVythx2mEgT_3KeX-0ww\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video Script<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Key Concept:<\/strong> Truth &amp; Verification\r\n\r\nVerification is perhaps the most important concept for news consumers to understand. It is one in which a reporter needs to gather, assess, and weigh different pieces of evidence, put those pieces of evidence into the big picture and give context to the topic as a whole, to be fair to all parties involved, but when appropriate, balancing the story and avoiding false equivalency\r\n\r\n<strong>Guiding Questions<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>What steps would a news consumer have to follow to \u201cunverify\u201d a fact?<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Describe the steps that a news consumer or a journalist might follow to verify a piece of information that is referenced by Mr. Slepian.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>What ways do you as a news consumer verify pieces of information you come across from news sources?<\/li>\r\n\t<li>For Journalism students, discuss what a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request is, and describe a situation in which the request may lead to the \u201cunverifying\u201d of a fact.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Additional Resources: <\/strong>\r\n\r\nNBC\u2019s Dateline Source Stories\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/20146590#20146590\">The Palladium Case <\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/dateline\/46359709#46359709\">The Velazquez Case<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/full-episode-bronx-tale-n125221\">Glisson Case: full episode <\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/reporters-notebook-bronx-tale-n123801\">Glisson Case: Reporter\u2019s Notebook<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h1>NBC News producer on \u201cunverifying\u201d accepted facts<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True, verification is a key to becoming news literate \u2013 but what happens when previously \u201cverified facts\u201d later turn out to be untrue? In cases of wrongful convictions, the process of verification often means you first have to \u201cunverify\u201d events that virtually everyone else thought had actually happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reinvestigating Wrongful Convictions<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/stonybrook.edu\/file\/d\/0B6mgAy5NdTA3dnJKRkl2d0hCalE\/preview\" height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Ll5Ah9g7ffPZvkLhvt9zWUngVythx2mEgT_3KeX-0ww\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video Script<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Concept:<\/strong> Truth &amp; Verification<\/p>\n<p>Verification is perhaps the most important concept for news consumers to understand. It is one in which a reporter needs to gather, assess, and weigh different pieces of evidence, put those pieces of evidence into the big picture and give context to the topic as a whole, to be fair to all parties involved, but when appropriate, balancing the story and avoiding false equivalency<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guiding Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What steps would a news consumer have to follow to \u201cunverify\u201d a fact?<\/li>\n<li>Describe the steps that a news consumer or a journalist might follow to verify a piece of information that is referenced by Mr. Slepian.<\/li>\n<li>What ways do you as a news consumer verify pieces of information you come across from news sources?<\/li>\n<li>For Journalism students, discuss what a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request is, and describe a situation in which the request may lead to the \u201cunverifying\u201d of a fact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC\u2019s Dateline Source Stories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/20146590#20146590\">The Palladium Case <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/dateline\/46359709#46359709\">The Velazquez Case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/full-episode-bronx-tale-n125221\">Glisson Case: full episode <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/reporters-notebook-bronx-tale-n123801\">Glisson Case: Reporter\u2019s Notebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-165\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>NBC News producer on u201cunverifyingu201d accepted facts. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Stony Brook University. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a 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