posted on: 5/7/2018

On Tuesday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m., the Dover Public Library will host a nonpartisan discussion with White House press veteran Randall Mikkelsen presenting his program “Fake News: What is the real story”?

The wave of ‘fake news’ that flooded Facebook and other social media during 2016’s election campaign was a wake-up call. Big changes have overtaken the way we get news in the United States, and how it is produced. These changes have given us the opportunity to be better informed. They also require us to be more careful consumers, so we can recognize distortion, propaganda and outright lies.

Fake news: What is the real story?

posted on: 5/7/2018

On Tuesday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m., the Dover Public Library will host a nonpartisan discussion with White House press veteran Randall Mikkelsen presenting his program “Fake News: What is the real story”?

The wave of ‘fake news’ that flooded Facebook and other social media during 2016’s election campaign was a wake-up call. Big changes have overtaken the way we get news in the United States, and how it is produced. These changes have given us the opportunity to be better informed. They also require us to be more careful consumers, so we can recognize distortion, propaganda and outright lies.

Join a nonpartisan discussion with White House press veteran Randall Mikkelsen, a managing editor at Thomson Reuters, on how to understand what we are getting in the social-media driven news landscape and how to tell the real from the fake.

“Especially in our current social-media-driven news landscape,” says Mikkelsen, “we need to learn how to tell the real from the fake.”

Mikkelsen has worked as a political and financial journalist with Reuters since 1988. He has covered many of the major news stories of our era, including the fall of the Soviet Union, the war on terrorism, and the financial crisis. Randall was a front-row member of the White House press corps for nearly seven years, where he covered the Justice Department, the CIA, and other Washington agencies. He has won awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and from the North Dakota Newspaper Association.

The program is free and open to the public.

For more information call the Library at 603-516-6050.