The buzzwords are legion: Fake news, alternative facts, falsehoods. In the last three months, all these terms have been printed in newspapers, flashed on screens and rehashed on television on a nearly daily basis. It’s difficult to discern reliable data from opinion or lies these days. While there is no single sure-fire method for telling… Read more »
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News You Can Use
In your research at IU East, you’re often called to include journal articles and book sources. But there are many other great types of sources. One that’s often overlooked is newspapers. News sources aren’t as rigorously tested as a book or a peer-reviewed journal, so we often dismiss them as less important or scholarly. But… Read more »
We mourn the tragic death of a hero in the fight for human rights
“We mourn the tragic death of a hero in the fight for human rights. We weep for his family. We weep for the nation.”1 You’ve likely read about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in your history classes and heard second-hand accounts about the impact he had on the Civil Rights Movement in the United… Read more »