PBS高端访谈:学生们眼中的虚假新闻和媒体

Judy Woodruff: Finally tonight, there is a national movement in schools to teach media literacy skills to teenagers who are growing up with access to more information than any previous generation. In an era of marked by calls of fake news and declining trust in media, we turned to our Student Reporting Labs to learn more about out how young people experience news and how they think about journalism¹.

Courtney Smith: You don't really know what you can believe, because there are so many sources saying so many different things.

Camden Miller²: It's weakening trust between the media and the audience.

Tristan Eddings: I'm pretty sure that I have shared fake news, but I didn't realize it until someone corrected me.

Julia Joy: No one knows what to trust and what not to trust anymore.

Hector Machucha: I shared a couple stories back in — during the presidential election that might not be as true as I originally believed they were.

Jennifer Anyaegbu: We're having a problem of people actually believing it, and then going forward with that news to have riots and things like that.

Mary Williams: I believe that it's the new epidemic³, because people don't understand how fast fake news spreads.

Muna Ezbudiwe: I remember there was a time everybody thought were in a gas crisis because of Hurricane Harvey, and everybody thought gas was running out. So, it spread through our social media and everybody got in a panic.

Addison Tusten: I don't necessarily think fake news is a problem so much as misinformation. People often are keen to take whatever information they're given right off the bat, sometimes without kind of thinking about where it's coming from or what it implies.

Angel Rivera: It is a person's first instinct to believe that what they see is true automatically. And people need to just double-check that, make sure they're getting the information from reliable sources.

Ushni Gupta: Journalism definitely does matter. It is the purest form of communication between people the politics and global issues.

Henry Smith: We live in a democracy, where the people make decisions about government. To make those decisions, we need information. And without journalism, where are we going to get it from? Twitter?

Trinity Aberin: We need to incorporate a type of lesson plan to improve our digital literacy skills.

Zoe Greenwald: We spend more time in the media than any generation ever has. And with all of this information being circulated, we need to make sure that the information that's getting to the audience is factual and is correct.

Judy Woodruff: So important that these young people learn these lessons. PBS NewsHour education coverage⁴ is part of American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen, a public media initiative made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

2 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

3 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

4 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。