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[Compare and contrast. That can reveal a lot.]

Do the cities have any other newspapers too?

[Well, reputable ones. He's come across some in Heropa, but he's not sure how trustworthy they are.]

They do. Every city has smaller, local newspapers centered on certain neighborhoods, but they don't always have the budget to write everything they'd like.

Oftentimes, online sources are just as valuable in finding out what matters to a neighborhood.

[Of course, though...]

I don't know how to find things online as well.

I can't blame you. That can be hard.
I start with Schmoogle, usually, and I'll set up news alerts to email me any time a media outlet posts about a topic and/or person that interests me.

Beyond that, it's all about figuring out what's a reliable source and what ISN'T, nine times out of ten.

How do you tell what's reliable?

There are a lot of ways. First, so that I'm not going over anything you might already know - have you ever had a library information session? If not, I would ask them to schedule one. They have whole programs devoted to reliability. :)

The short version: you figure out if something is reliable by checking the domain and the url. A reputable company will own their own news website. They'll take their own pictures, which you can check with a reverse image search. If they're quoting someone like a professor, look up the professor. Do they have the degree that they said they did?

It's all about fact-checking, and making sure that what someone says is actually true.

I haven't! I'll have to schedule that.

So you need to make sure that people really know what they're talking about and that they're doing the work. That makes sense.

Exactly. In this day, you can't take everything at face value.

All you can do is see where the news gets its news, and decide for yourself whether to believe it or not. Not every website is out to push a lie, but they DO have a story they want to tell.

Thank you! This helps a lot.

No problem, Norman! Anytime you have a question, I'm only a text away.

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