SPH Has A Media Course On Fake News
Everyone’s talking about a recession, and everyone’s saying, if you want to keep up with the market, you’ve got to pick up new skills.
With the proliferation of fake news, there seems no better skill to pick up than being able to spot – with uncanny accuracy – fake news.
Like a winning TOTO ticket falling from the sky into your hands, Singapore Press Holdings is offering a course on exactly that — how to spot fake news.
The course is titled, “The Straits Times Media Analysis Course“.
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The full-day affair is priced at $648 — an inexpensive amount for the satisfaction you’ll eventually derive from eradicating the forces of fake news.
Hone a critical eye
You won’t be able to tell a valid GrabFood coupon from an invalid one, but you will be able to tell if a video of an auntie bombarding a butcher shop with raw meat did actually take place in Singapore.
Through the course, you will be equipped with skills that will let you identify “common fallacies” and “misleading headlines”, like “Singaporeans Not Ready For Short Prime Minister“. Basically, every fibre of fake news out there start becoming more evident to you than the Sun in a plain sky.
So go ahead, tell your boss that that video of roaming crocodiles at MacRitchie is false. He’ll be more than grateful and probably give you a raise, because you just saved his weekend trekking plans.
Led by anti-fake news champions
No surprise, the course will be led by veterans of the media industry.
They are Ms Shefali Rekhi, a senior journalist at the The Straits Times and Mr Geoffrey Pereira, a long-time media professional at the same company.
The course seems to only run once on 31 Jul 2019. And then that’s it, you’re never going to get another chance to master the lucrative art of anti-fake-news-ing.
Registrations close 10 days before the course date i.e. 21 Jul. Click here to sign up.
Disclaimer: This is not a paid advertisement. Seriously, it isn’t. But we’re not saying spotting fake news isn’t an important skill. It is, especially in this age of headline-reading.
Featured image from ST Skills.
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