'Have You Heard This? The Latest On Rumor'

“Anatomy of a Rumor” by psychologist Daniel Goleman, introduces the reader to how rumors work. Typically, rumors dealing with death or disease are the most commonly shared. Goleman successfully uses results from various research projects to explain to the audience that fear and anxiety play a role in why these rumors are spread.

The Contagious Rumors “I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. ”-Venus Williams. People spread rumors because they feel that it will interest them more than the truth. In some ways, creating rumors can give people a reason to for them to believe that something is more flared than what the actual truth is.

It’s because it isn’t true. It is just a lie that’s been embellished and passed around. To the people who share it, it may seem like another juicy tidbit, but to the person who is the subject of gossiping, it’s like the end of the world. It makes them insecure and secluded. For Goodwife Cruff, gossip was her life.

As proven by Nigel Jaquiss, muckraking is still out there in the world. Muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspapers as demonstrated by Nigel Jaquiss’s three-part Willamette Week expose titled, “The 30 year secret; A crime, a cover up, and the way it shaped Oregon.” “On May 6, he confessed” (Jaquiss) This article helped prove that Neil Goldschmidt raped a 14 year old girl for three years, and covered up the crime. This article also showed the long term effects of sexual assault, by showing how terrible the girl’s life way following the assault (Jaquiss).

That’s why the gossip trade is a $3 billion a year industry.”. This is extremely harmful because it ruins people’s social lives causing them to contract depression and get into a state of depression that is extremely unhealthy for people and very dangerous because of certain consequences that could result from

This sentence tells us that the gossipers do not know anything

From this little lie at the time, it caused a massive fear and hysteria throughout the town. Further in the story we find there are hidden hatred, jealousy, and lust between the people

Apart from his coworkers, the magazine also lost trust in their readers, after they let 27 false articles out of the 41 articles Glass wrote for them slip through the cracks. This is an example of yellow journalism at its finest, and it shows how young reporters, like Stephen Glass were so eager and determined to become acclaimed writers. At the expense of the people who wrote with Glass, and the readers who were deceived by Glass’ fake articles, posed as

Everywhere we look there is some form of bullshit going around and according to Professor Frankhurt, bullshitting is a more serious threat than lying. In his essay he talks about the many concepts of bullshit from his own perspective and compares bullshit to other related topics such as “Humbug” and “Lying”, and then breaks the words down to a basic understanding to help find a true meaning of . His use of definitions and in depth analysis, makes his essay very effective in describing buullshit. It seems that his main concerns pertain to what bullshit is.

The spread of false information or “fake news” in today’s society is creating mobs of people with uninformed or misguided rage that causes them to abandon rational thinking. For example the aforementioned awful repercussions of pizzagate came to a head when It was reported that “the Washington DC pizzeria Comet Ping Pong fell victim to fake news in 2016 when false internet stories claimed the restaurant was operating a child sex ring. Responding to the story an armed vigilante entered the pizzeria and began firing a rifle”(Currie 6). It has clear that this is a problem that can affect anyone from big name politicians to small time pizza places.

In regards to the truth, publishers did not care as long as they were making money, and their papers were selling. For the Newsies, it did not matter either, as when the headlines were more intriguing, they sold more papers as well. This is demonstrated

In times like these people’s emotions and rumors spread like wildfire and before you know it, it’s consumed everything and

For instance, in a Washington Post news article published in 2014, Abby Phillip reports that a researcher, Dong Pyou Han, manipulated data regarding an HIV vaccine that supposedly worked on rabbits for personal fame. Phillip reported, "the rabbit blood became contaminated with human antibodies ... Instead of admitting them, [Han] continued to spike future samples... results that were considered to be a breakthrough" (Phillip). Humans are often willing to defy their own values and morals to achieve personal fame. Because recognition and prestige are such emotional luxuries, many people will ignore the consequences of their actions.

Gossip is the source to the downfall of the school and the potential outbreak of a national disaster. The impact of the media encouraged the girls to continue lying about the condition. Moreover, When the children feel threatened, they condemn one another. Colleen says that “it’s easy to point fingers from a position of comfort, and nothing he or Jesus says will change that” (Howe 250). The school points the blame at the school nurse to avoided the school getting bad press.

Some info might not be true. This happened on Twitter when 64% of people that got news on this site later found out that it wasn’t true. Since information can also be spread out so fast, these false facts can also be sent to millions of other viewers. So you heard about some Trump new, huh? Maybe don’t go for it on the social