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Write a blog post to assess the credibility of the news article use at least 3 pieces of evidence to support your claims. (5-7 sentences)

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1. Mark V for Verification, T for transparency, A for accountability and I for evidence of Independence.

2. Sources!
a. What is the reputation of the writer and organization? (1-2)
b. What date is this article from?
c. How does this relate to what you've heard about the issue before?  (1-2)
d. Find 2 other sources from other news outlets, are they consistent with other findings?

3. Work with group members to identify bias of a given news article, justify findings with at least 2 pieces of evidence.

4. Using what you learned today assess the credibility of this current issues article. Write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) evaluating the credibility of the article.

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1. Mark V for Verification, T for transparency, A for accountability and I for evidence of Independence.

2. Sources!
a. What is the reputation of the writer and organization? (1-2)
b. What date is this article from?
c. How does this relate to what you've heard about the issue before?  (1-2)
d. Find 2 other sources from other news outlets, are they consistent with other findings?

3. Work with group members to identify bias of a given news article, justify findings with at least 2 pieces of evidence.

4. Using what you learned today assess the credibility of this current issues article. Write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) evaluating the credibility of the article.

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Members of a Kurdish-Arab coalition allied with the U.S. were killed after providing the U.S. with the wrong coordinates for an enemy target during a battle with Islamic State fighters earlier this week, the military said.

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Together we are going to mark V for Verification, T for transparency, A for accountability and I for evidence of Independence.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - From the safety of a resilient U.S. economy, President Donald Trump lit the fuse Friday on a high-risk trade war with China.

History suggests that a cycle of tariffs and retaliations can eventually choke economic growth. But for now, employers, investors and U.S. consumers are weighing the perils of a prolonged rift between the world's two largest economies against a far more positive backdrop: America's healthiest job market in years.

Evidently confident despite the risks ahead, U.S. employers have added jobs this year at a robust monthly average of 214,500. Many businesses say they've reached the point where they can't even find enough people to fill jobs. Unemployment is at a low 4 percent.

All that hiring is occurring in an economic expansion that is entering its 10th year - the second-longest streak on record. The U.S. financial markets, while wary of the trade fights Trump has pursued, have swung this year between modest gains and losses but have avoided any sustained panic.

"The robustness of the economy - and it's stronger than it has been in decades - inoculates Trump's trade policy moves from closer scrutiny," said Daniel Ikenson, director for trade policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.

Most employers see the economy as having achieved a comfortable cruising speed and have kept hiring. In surveys of business sentiment, they have expressed concerns about the tariffs, but their wariness has yet to disrupt their business plans.

The United States added 213,000 jobs in June, and an influx of new jobseekers, seemingly optimistic about their prospects but not finding work right away, lifted the unemployment rate from 3.8 percent to 4 percent, the government reported Friday.

Helping propel growth, business and consumers have received a $136 billion stimulus this year from tax cuts. Quarterly economic growth is on track to be the strongest since 2014. Housing starts are up 11 percent so far this year.

From this position of strength, President Donald Trump is gambling that he can deploy tariffs to his advantage even though they will inflict some pain on businesses and consumers that backed him in 2016. The Trump team's calculation appears to be that foreign countries have no choice but to trade with the world's largest economy and will ultimately have to yield.

The president hopes to extract concessions not only from China but also from such long-standing allies as the European Union, Canada and Mexico. His stated goal is to reduce U.S. trade imbalances and create more U.S. manufacturing jobs.

So far, the economy can absorb the costs of the new tariffs, including separate steel and aluminum import taxes, without suffering a crushing hit. But the pain could intensify. Trump has threatened a 20 percent tariff on roughly $50 billion of auto imports from the European Union. Those tariffs could lead to reciprocal taxes from other countries that could hurt U.S. automakers and lead to layoffs.

Trump has warned that he may eventually impose tariffs on more than $500 billion of Chinese imports. He said in a speech in Montana last week that other countries will agree to his terms - "and if they don't, we'll actually do better."

"Our allies, in many cases, were worse than our enemies," the president said. "We opened our country to their goods, but they put up massive barriers to keep our products and our goods the hell out of their country because they didn't want that competition."

From soybean farmers and pork producers to the motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson, numerous American exporters are facing upheavals from the tariffs.

Still, some U.S. companies are benefiting. Braidy Industries, for example, just broke ground on an aluminum mill near Ashland, Kentucky. It says it's already sold twice the plant's capacity for the first seven years of production after actions by the U.S. government to protect America's aluminum industry.

Craig Bouchard, Braidy's CEO, said an expansion of U.S. tariffs on imported aluminum is helping to allow for the 600 mill jobs he's adding in Appalachia and the thousands of jobs indirectly supported by the plant.

"It's 10,000 families resting on my shoulders," he said.

So far, most economists view Trump as jockeying for more favorable trade rules rather than welcoming a prolonged conflict with America's trading partners. Administration officials have encouraged this view.

"He's going to deliver better deals," Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on FOX Business Network. "He's called the bluff of other countries that have basically been abusing ... our workers for a long time and - but he wants better deals."

Bill Adams, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services, said that a truly destructive trade war is "still not our base case expectation, but it is less farfetched than it seemed" earlier this year.

A calamitous trade war would likely be the "result of miscalculation or unintended consequences, rather than an explicit goal," Adams added.

If it happened, the Trump-led economy could eventually buckle under the weight of protectionist trade policies.

"The longer tariffs last and the wider they become, the more they will dampen hiring and investment by U.S. businesses engaged in global value chains," Adams said.

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Trump's economic gamble: Solid job gains vs. risky trade war

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WASHINGTON (AP) - From the safety of a resilient U.S. economy, President Donald Trump lit the fuse Friday on a high-risk trade war with China. History suggests that a cycle of tariffs and retaliations can eventually choke economic growth. But for now, employers, investors and U.S.

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1 Daily Question BREAKING NEWS
2 Journalism/Sources Mini Lecture
3 News Breakdown Model
4 Group News Breakdown (Exit Slip)

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China Says U.S. Has Begun 'Largest Trade War' In History, Retaliates With Tariffs : NPR.pdf

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Describe how political parties and interest groups use media to influence the political and public-policy processes. (CS 2)

Write a blog post to assess the credibility of the news article using the standards of journalism and sourcing. (CS 3)

Work with group members to identify bias of a given news article, justify findings with at least 2 pieces of evidence. (CS 3)

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Write your own headline for the story. What intention do you believe the editors had by writing these headlines? Does this mean we can never trust any of these sources? Why or why not?

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As the day dawned across the U.S. on Friday, a new economic reality dawned with it: The tariffs long threatened against billions of dollars in Chinese goods took effect just at midnight ET while many Americans were sleeping - but Beijing was ready immediately with a wake-up call of its own.

The new trade regulations imposed by the Trump administration, which levy a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports to the U.S., have "violated [World Trade Organization] rules and launched the largest trade war in economic history to date," China's Ministry of Commerce declared in a statement Friday.

And Chinese authorities quickly retaliated with equivalent tariffs on $34 billion worth of imported U.S. goods - previously promised as ranging from vehicles to soybeans, beef and other agricultural products.

The rapid tit-for-tat follows weeks of anxious anticipation over the "trade remedies" President Trump vowed last month to implement. At the time he announced the tariffs, back in mid-June, Trump said the current U.S.-China economic relationship had grown "no longer sustainable."

"Trade between our nations," he explained, "has been very unfair, for a very long time."

And he has promised that Friday's package of economic penalties will not be the last. On Thursday aboard Air Force One, the president vowed to implement tariffs on an additional $16 billion worth of imported Chinese goods within the month.

China, for its part, has promised at each step of the way to retaliate in kind. "China is forced to strike back to safeguard core national interests and the interests of its people," its commerce ministry declared.

The two countries have engaged increasingly in verbal sparring in recent months, but Friday's pair of haymakers has dramatically escalated the trade dispute - and that has investors across the world worries about what comes next.

"What we can expect is disruption in supply chains. We can expect job losses and a decline in investor and consumer confidence," longtime Beijing-based attorney James Zimmerman tells NPR's Rob Schmitz. "And that's going to impact the stock market. And the impact on U.S. business, in my estimation, will be substantial."

Substantial they may be, but the average U.S. consumer will likely not see these impacts directly for a little while. Mary Lovely, economics professor at Syracuse University, says that roughly 60 percent of U.S.-China trade involves parts and supplies, rather than final goods - so the most immediate effect will be felt by the companies making the products, not the consumers finding them on store shelves.

But eventually those costs will take their toll on the average wallet - and it likely won't be simply because of these tariffs. Jeremy Haft, author of Unmade in China, tells NPR's Noel King that Beijing has a number of arrows in its economic quiver, and that it is "already using these weapons."

"China can make it much more difficult to operate on the mainland," Haft says. "For example, they can quarantine [U.S.] products for a long time. They can make products difficult to clear customs."

He explains that he has already seen the effects in the pork industry.

"Normally, if your papers are in order, the pork proceeds smoothly through customs and into the country," he says. "But what's happened increasingly, is suddenly it became much, much more difficult for pork to clear customs and that becomes very expensive - especially with a perishable product which can spoil in the port if its not kept in the right refrigeration condition."

The White House, however, has cast its volley of tariffs as a long overdue move to rectify a longstanding imbalance in trade between the countries - particularly, as Trump has said, in China's "unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology."

But China is not the only country to find itself in Washington's crosshairs lately when it comes to trade.

The Trump administration engaged in a similar tit-for-tat last month with the European Union, Mexico and Canada.

In the weeks since the U.S. leveled tariffs on steel and aluminum - which the EU called illegal - Mexico retaliated with levies of 15 percent to 25 percent on U.S. agricultural products; Canada imposed tariffs on nearly $13 billion of U.S. goods; and the EU hit back with its own 25 percent tariff on distinctively American products ranging from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Just days after the EU retaliation, Harley-Davidson said it plans to move its production of the motorcycles it sells in Europe overseas. The company said in a Securities and Exchange commission filing that the tariffs "would have an immediate and lasting detrimental impact to its business in the region."

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has come out against the Trump administration's trade policy, published a state-by-state analysis of what it says the effects of that policy will be. The organization says some states - such as Alabama, Texas and Wisconsin, where Harley-Davidson is based - are likely to see upward of $1 billion in state exports threatened by a trade war with multiple fronts.

Still, the Trump administration sees the negative impacts as short-term "hiccups" on the path to more permanent solutions.

"The president is trying to fix long-term problems that should have been dealt with long time ago [and] weren't," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said earlier this week, "and there obviously is going to be some pulling and tugging as we try to deal with very serious problems."

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China Says U.S. Has Begun 'Largest Trade War' In History, Retaliates With Tariffs

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As the day dawned across the U.S. on Friday, a new economic reality dawned with it: The tariffs long threatened against billions of dollars in Chinese goods took effect just at midnight ET while many Americans were sleeping - but Beijing was ready immediately with a wake-up call of its own.

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Sources That Are Credible! (Maybe) (American Government CS 3)

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Sources That Are Credible! (Maybe) (American Government CS 3)

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Gallup Polls are often referenced in the mass media as a reliable and objective measure of public opinion. A nonscientific poll; a poll in which there is no way to ensure that the opinions expressed are representative of the larger population.

Survey- investigate the opinions or experience of (a group of people) by asking them questions.

Information from an advocacy group (Always Biased)

American Civil Liberties Union

United Farm Workers of America

American Library Association

Planned Parenthood Action Fund

Feeding America

Sources That Are More Safe!

Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.

Research data- comes in many forms and may originate with organizations ranging from universities to research institutes. Research into local issues can be conducted by students.

Not A Source But Important

Credentials- a qualification, achievement, personal quality, or aspect of a person's background, typically when used to indicate that they are suitable for something.

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Sources! Sources! Sources! (American Government CS 3)

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Sources! Sources! Sources! (American Government CS 3)

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Considerations involved with determining the credibility of sources include:

The qualifications/reputation of the writer and/or organization;

The circumstances in which the source material was generated;

Internal consistency and agreement with other credible sources;

Use of supporting evidence and logical conclusions; and evidence of bias or unstated assumptions.

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1. Go online and visit two news sites and select articles from the same current political issue: One news source you already think is reliable, one you’ve heard is unreliable. Select from the following current issues...
- Immigration Policy
- Supreme Court Nomination
- U.S. Trade Policy

Make sure that the articles contains at least one of the following: A Gallup poll, public records, a survey, research data, or information from an advocacy group.

2. For EACH news site, save a pdf document and mark the following: Verification, Transparency, Accountability, Independence:

3. Sources!
a. What is the reputation of the writer and organization?
b. How does this relate to what you've heard about the issue before?
c. What kind of sources do we see used are they consistent with other findings?
d. Identify supporting evidence and their conclusions. Do they have any unstated assumptions?

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• Verification (fact-checking; vetting sources)
• Transparency (being open about the process, biases, etc.)
• Accountability (naming the author, source of video/photo, etc.)
• Independence (staying free from influence by those being covered)

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- The U.S. military mistakenly killed 18 of its own allies in Syria in a misdirected airstrike meant to hit Islamic State fighters, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
- A U.S. drone struck and killed at least 18 members of an allied Syrian force this week, the Pentagon said, in the worst friendly fire incident of the war against the Islamic State.
- The U.S. military says a misdirected airstrike this week killed 18 friendly fighters battling Islamic State alongside the international coalition in northern Syria.
- WASHINGTON — An airstrike by the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State killed 18 Syrian fighters allied with the United States, the military said on Thursday.

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WSJ- U.S. Mistakenly Bombs Allies in Syria, Killing 18
Washington Post- U.S.-led coalition accidentally bombs Syrian allies, killing 18
L.A. Times- U.S. military says misdirected airstrike in northern Syria killed 18 allied fighters
The New York Times- 18 Syrian Fighters Allied With U.S. Are Killed in Coalition Airstrike