The "news" story from the Onion News Network I chose is called "Justin Bieber Found To Be Cleverly Disguised 51-Year-Old Pedophile".
Justin Bieber Found To Be Cleverly Disguised 51-Year-Old Pedophile
In relation to this "fake" story, I chose a CBS News Network "real" story about the "Pediatric Pedophile".
These two news stories are concerned with the same topic - pedophilia. However, the Onion News Network makes up the entire story while still performing the story in the same serious tone, which makes it humorous because the point is being explained - that sometimes through the same tone of seriousness, "real" news networks report stories that are not as equally serious as say a murder story. As Baym notes in her essay, "The label of 'fake' news also has a deeper problem. Any notion of 'fake' depends upon an equal conception of 'real'. Fake news necessitates assumptions about some kind of authentic or legitimate set of news practices, ideals that one rarely hears articulated or necessarily sees as evident today" (2).
In terms of gate-keeping, the "real" news functions under this method - that all the information/stories are out there but the media acts as a gate and only allows certain information/stories through to be presented to the public. The agenda-setting is literally setting an agenda - deciding what is important to share within those stories that pass through the gate and are introduced/discussed on camera.
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