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The Tale of Mejk Swenekafew
Recently, many people have been talking about "fake news" news reports
that are untrue. However, such reports have been around for a long time. They are
sometimes used in order to get more people to read newspapers, watch TV
programs, or visit online news sites. People also use fake news to spread their
political or religious beliefs. However, ( 24 ) publishing fake news. In 1903
in the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, fake news was used to check/if
newspaper was really writing its own articles.
In the city, there were two rival newspapers, the Clarksburg Daily Telegram
and the Clarksburg Daily News. The Daily Telegram's staff believed that the
Daily News's reporters were ( 25 ). The Daily Telegram decided to check
whether this was happening. It published a fake news story about a man who had
been shot after an argument about a dog. The man's name was Mejk Swenekafew.
Soon afterward, exactly the same news appeared in the Daily News. However, the
reporters at the Daily News had not noticed that the name "Swenekafew" was
actually "we fake news" written backward. They were forced to admit that they
had copied the Daily Telegram's article.
These days, there is more pressure than ever on newspapers, news programs,
and news websites to get more readers, viewers, and visitors. In order to do so,
they need to report big news stories as quickly as possible. ( 26 ), they are
constantly watching each other to make sure they have the latest stories. However,
they need to be careful not to do the same thing that the Clarksburg Daily News
did.
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