Below is copied and pasted from https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/As Election Day nears, misinformation grows. That’s why @wsfa12news recommends the #FindFactsFast initiative from @Poynter, a non-partisan school for journalists. Decipher fact from fiction by signing up for FREE tips here 👉 https://t.co/Rs7jXFBPEL @mediawise #alpolitics
— Mark Bullock (@markb_wsfa) October 5, 2022
Gray Television is launching a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
In partnership with the nonprofit Poynter Institute’s MediaWise program, Find Facts Fast is a free text message course designed to empower people with skills to better participate in the democratic process and spot misinformation online and in their social media feeds.
“Elections make fertile grounds for bad actors, domestic and abroad, to plant seeds of disinformation, due in part to polarization, heightened emotions and a 24/7 news cycle on social feeds,” said MediaWise director Alex Mahadevan. “Find Facts Fast helps anyone … wade through the flood of misinformation we’ll see in the coming months and beyond.”
The instructors include a team of award-winning journalists, teaching learners how to spot misinformation, leverage digital tools to verify online content, identify videos and images that were manipulated, diversify their news diets to avoid echo chambers and practice click restraint.
10/6/22 Email to TV stationsQuestion re #FindFactsFast initiative (as Election Day nears & misinformation grows) that urges signing up for text messages to decipher fact from fiction:
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) October 5, 2022
Has this initiative filtered into @wsfa12news TV news presentations to its viewers?https://t.co/GUQbCtsLCj#alpolitics
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: comments@abc3340.com, programming@abc3340.com, Susana.Schuler@hearst.com, blong@hearst.com, wcromwell@cbs42.com, rmartin@cbs42.com, collin.gaston@wbrc.com, jama.killingsworth@waff.com, julie@waff.com, paul.caron@whnt.com, mwright@waaytv.com, sgallien@waaytv.com, eric.duncan@fox10tv.com, Randy.Merrow@fox10tv.com, news@mynbc15.com, dsingleton@mynbc15.com, PAlbrecht@wkrg.com, clombard@wkrg.com, robby.thomas@wtvy.com, stephen.crews@wtvy.com, TCole@wdhn.com, RWare@wdhn.com, mbunting@wsfa.com, sduff@wsfa.com, ghalbrooks@alabamanews.net, jrainey@alabamanews.net, sdiorio@wvua23.com,knorred@wvua23.com, emileigh.forrester@whnt.com, emily.moessner@whnt.com, greg.screws@whnt.com, hbaker@waff.com, sean.dowling@waff.com, matthew.king@waff.com, dshaffer@waaytv.com, nwilliams@waaytv.com, mwaxel@waaytv.com
Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2022 9:50 am
Subject: How will AL TV stations live up to Poynter Institute’s MediaWise initiative?
Dear Alabama TV stations:
Per https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/, Gray Television has launched a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
The program is in a partnership with the MediaWise initiative of the Poynter Institute. It is called "Find Facts Fast" and is described as a free text message course designed to empower people with skills to better participate in the democratic process and spot misinformation online and in their social media feeds.
It is unclear to me how this will filter into the TV news presentations that Gray Television's Alabama TV stations make to their viewers during the next 31 days (or thereafter).
I have been complaining for months about how Alabama TV stations are doing their job in connection with the 2022 elections. (For this, see https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/know-truth-alabama.html and read links going back in time.)
The program that Gray Television has launched is an acknowledgment that something better is needed in their news business to serve Alabama voters and the democratic process in Alabama.
If there is a TV station in Alabama that does not believe that something better is needed in its news business to serve its viewers and the democratic process in Alabama, please say so.
Otherwise, I will assume it is generally believed by Alabama TV stations that something better is needed in their news business to serve Alabama voters and the democratic process in Alabama, and the only question is whether there is an ability and a willingness to do better.
Thank you.
[To be filed in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html]
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: saa0056@auburn.edu, brunnbr@auburn.edu, all0093@auburn.edu, ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu, mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu
Sent: Tue, Oct 18, 2022 6:35 pm
Subject: FWIW -- AL TV stations and misinformation
Dear Professors Aghazadeh, Brunner, Linford, Youngblood, Delaney, Fairley, Filleppeli, Nelson, Franks, Blankenship, Carey, and Cofield:
I have previously emailed Professors Nelson, Franks, Blankenship, Carey, and Cofield concerning Alabama TV stations.
Per https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/, Gray Television has launched a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
Basically, given the magnitude of the misinformation problem in Alabama and in the rest of the United States, this initiative by Gray Television seems grossly inadequate, and I have written the below email to Alabama TV stations regarding the same.
You are Alabama professors of journalism and communication who teach students who progress to employment by Alabama TV stations.
Accordingly, I think it is appropriate for me to send this email to you.
Thank you
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
Subject: FWIW -- AL TV stations and misinformation
Dear Professors Aghazadeh, Brunner, Linford, Youngblood, Delaney, Fairley, Filleppeli, Nelson, Franks, Blankenship, Carey, and Cofield:
I have previously emailed Professors Nelson, Franks, Blankenship, Carey, and Cofield concerning Alabama TV stations.
Per https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/, Gray Television has launched a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
Basically, given the magnitude of the misinformation problem in Alabama and in the rest of the United States, this initiative by Gray Television seems grossly inadequate, and I have written the below email to Alabama TV stations regarding the same.
You are Alabama professors of journalism and communication who teach students who progress to employment by Alabama TV stations.
Accordingly, I think it is appropriate for me to send this email to you.
Thank you
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To:dcole@bcatoday.org, ejerkins@birminghambusinessalliance.com, director@homewoodchamber.org, chamber@vestaviahills.org, rfigh@montgomerychamber.com, chamberinfo@shelbychamber.net, pelhamchamberofcommerce@gmail.com, sandra@leedsareachamber.com nhewston@mobilechamber.com, jim@westalabamachamber.com
Cc: comments@abc3340.com, programming@abc3340.com, Susana.Schuler@hearst.com, blong@hearst.com, wcromwell@cbs42.com, rmartin@cbs42.com, collin.gaston@wbrc.com, jama.killingsworth@waff.com, julie@waff.com, paul.caron@whnt.com, mwright@waaytv.com, sgallien@waaytv.com, eric.duncan@fox10tv.com, Randy.Merrow@fox10tv.com, news@mynbc15.com, dsingleton@mynbc15.com, PAlbrecht@wkrg.com, clombard@wkrg.com, robby.thomas@wtvy.com, stephen.crews@wtvy.com, TCole@wdhn.com, RWare@wdhn.com, mbunting@wsfa.com, sduff@wsfa.com, ghalbrooks@alabamanews.net, jrainey@alabamanews.net, sdiorio@wvua23.com, knorred@wvua23.com, emileigh.forrester@whnt.com, emily.moessner@whnt.com, greg.screws@whnt.com,hbaker@waff.com, sean.dowling@waff.com, matthew.king@waff.comdshaffer@waaytv.com, nwilliams@waaytv.com, mwaxel@waaytv.com ; saa0056@auburn.edu, brunnbr@auburn.edu, all0093@auburn.edu,
ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu,
mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 5:54 pm
Subject: TWIMC - AL TV stations, misinformation, & AL chambers of commerce
To Whom It May Concern at Alabama chambers of commerce:
Per https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/, Gray Television launched a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
In the below email to twelve Alabama professors of journalism and communication, I say that, given the magnitude of the misinformation problem, I think the foregoing initiative by Gray Television is grossly inadequate.
I have not received any reaction by the professors of what they think.
I am not optimistic that Alabama TV stations, with or without Alabama professors of communication and journalism weighing in, will be anything other than grossly inadequate in how they attempt to ameliorate the misinformation problem in Alabama.
It would be nice for Alabama chambers of commerce to try to help Alabama TV stations with the stations' misinformation problem.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu,
mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 5:54 pm
Subject: TWIMC - AL TV stations, misinformation, & AL chambers of commerce
To Whom It May Concern at Alabama chambers of commerce:
Per https://www.wsfa.com/2022/09/06/sign-up-find-facts-fast-course-spotting-disinformation/, Gray Television launched a new program ahead of the November midterm election to help voters differentiate between fact and fiction.
In the below email to twelve Alabama professors of journalism and communication, I say that, given the magnitude of the misinformation problem, I think the foregoing initiative by Gray Television is grossly inadequate.
I have not received any reaction by the professors of what they think.
I am not optimistic that Alabama TV stations, with or without Alabama professors of communication and journalism weighing in, will be anything other than grossly inadequate in how they attempt to ameliorate the misinformation problem in Alabama.
It would be nice for Alabama chambers of commerce to try to help Alabama TV stations with the stations' misinformation problem.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: editor@theplainsman.com <editor@theplainsman.com>
Cc: comments@abc3340.com, programming@abc3340.com, Susana.Schuler@hearst.com, blong@hearst.com, wcromwell@cbs42.com, rmartin@cbs42.com, collin.gaston@wbrc.com, jama.killingsworth@waff.com, julie@waff.com, paul.caron@whnt.com, mwright@waaytv.com, sgallien@waaytv.com, eric.duncan@fox10tv.com, Randy.Merrow@fox10tv.com, news@mynbc15.com, dsingleton@mynbc15.com, PAlbrecht@wkrg.com, clombard@wkrg.com, robby.thomas@wtvy.com, stephen.crews@wtvy.com, TCole@wdhn.com, RWare@wdhn.com, mbunting@wsfa.com, sduff@wsfa.com, ghalbrooks@alabamanews.net, jrainey@alabamanews.net, sdiorio@wvua23.com, knorred@wvua23.com, adolan@wdfx34.com, rpowell@wdfx34.com, bcalhoun@wmbb.com, kpeck@wmbb.com, donna.bell@wjhg.com, roberto.jimenez@wjhg.com ; saa0056@auburn.edu saa0056@auburn.edu, brunnbr@auburn.edu, all0093@auburn.edu,
ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu,
mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu,
Sent: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 1:33 pm
Subject: Feb Auburn Journalism. panel "Understanding Impact: Distinguishing between advocacy and journalism"
Dear Abbey and Destini,
On Thursday I tweeted regarding the two of you on the February Auburn Journalism panel "Understanding Impact: Distinguishing between advocacy and journalism," advertised as "looking at if advocacy plays a role in journalism and if so, what role it plays." https://twitter.com/RobShattuckAL06/status/1585608074076749824.
My interest is in Alabama local TV journalism and particularly whether they are able and willing to editorialize. See https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/07/al-tv-viewers-need-help-reaching-their.html.
I have been on the case of Alabama TV stations for months.
In reverse chronological order, see, e.g.,
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html;
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/know-truth-alabama.html;
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/08/brian-stelter-trump-al-tv-stations.html;
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-for-alabamas-journalistically.html;
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/07/al-tv-viewers-need-help-reaching-their.html;
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/05/post-mortem-of-al-tv-stations-election.html; and
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/05/candidates-mailers-tv-station-election.html.
The TV stations have ignored me.
I don't presume anything you say will influence the TV stations not to ignore me.
Please take this email as using you and your involvement with the "advocacy versus journalism" panel discussion in February as a way for me to continue to call out Alabama TV stations for intentionally or involuntarily failing their Alabama viewers.
I ask for your indulgence.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
11/3/22 Email to TV stations' weather and sports reportersWill or won't @wsfa12news @AlabamaPolitics provide commentary to viewers about what difference outcomes of 2022 elections will make in taming inflation & improving economy?
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) November 2, 2022
Answer is they won't because they're unqualified or unwilling, or both.https://t.co/GUQbCtsLCj#alpolitics https://t.co/BB3JTo4hzO
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Michael.White@fox10tv.com, agann@cbs42.com, Jessica.Camuto@whnt.com, cmeredith@waaytv.com, rblackwell@waka.com, emily.acton@wtvy.com, jspann@gmail.com, alsealls@sbgtv.com, amanda.curran@gray.tv,olivianna.calmes@wbrc.com, cbreece@cbs42.com, olivia.whitmire@whnt.com, nknight@waaytv.com, asolomon@bahakelcomm.com, nick.brooks@wtvy.com, Ryan.Hennessy@Hearst.com, Kari.Osep@hearst.com
Sent: Thu, Nov 3, 2022 7:30 am
Subject: Please pass this along to your news people
Sent: Thu, Nov 3, 2022 7:30 am
Subject: Please pass this along to your news people
Dear Alabama TV stations' sports and weather people:
Please pass along to your news people that the outcome of the 2022 elections will not make a difference in what will be done to tame inflation and improve the economy. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-usa-will-not-be-happier-country-in.html.
I am asking you to do this because, when your news people don't respond, I don't know whether what I say registers with them, and your passing this along to your news people may help. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html,
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Please pass along to your news people that the outcome of the 2022 elections will not make a difference in what will be done to tame inflation and improve the economy. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-usa-will-not-be-happier-country-in.html.
I am asking you to do this because, when your news people don't respond, I don't know whether what I say registers with them, and your passing this along to your news people may help. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html,
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
11/6/22 Email to Megan ScaranoThere is widespread despair over misinformation problem that is debilitating our nation's politics & systems of governance.
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) November 4, 2022
I think Gray Television & all AL TV stations could do a lot more to try to lessen the problem.https://t.co/GUQbCttjrR#alpoliticshttps://t.co/CsW788wZ6m
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mscarano@sbgtv.com <mscarano@sbgtv.com>
Cc: saa0056@auburn.edu, brunnbr@auburn.edu, all0093@auburn.edu, ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu, mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu
Cc: saa0056@auburn.edu, brunnbr@auburn.edu, all0093@auburn.edu, ney0002@auburn.edu, bcd0039@auburn.edu, fairlln@auburn.edu , fillise@auburn.edu, mnelson@ua.edu, alfranks@uab.edu, jzb0124@auburn.edu, mcarey@samford.edu, cofieldj@montevallo.edu
Sent: Sun, Nov 6, 2022 1:50 pm
Subject: Using you to continue to complain about AL TV stations
Dear Megan,
Earlier this week I tweeted the education news story you wrote (https://abc3340.com/newsletter-daily/tuscaloosa-city-schools-to-host-community-form-feedback-students-parents-northridge-high), and I added the same to https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-are-your-concerns-about-mtn-brook.html.
The Republicans have made education a prime 2022 election issue related to critical race theory, school closures in the pandemic, gender identification, and the indoctrination of students to be leftist socialists.
For me, the education issue exemplifies the nation's political and cultural polarization, in which extreme minorities on the two sides and their leaders control the politics and the political discourse, and in which they sideline the majority in the middle who can accept and would prefer agreements. This is accompanied by the two sides talking to only their own bases and not to the other side, and riling up their sides against the other side, and further by TV stations getting paid to run the one sided campaign ads that rile up the political bases against one another, and the TV stations failing their viewers by not informing them about how the viewers are subjected to one sided messaging to rile up the bases, and agreements being prevented on things that are acceptable to a majority in the middle but that are objected to by the extremes and their leaders who use their bases for the leaders to have power. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/02/can-two-sides-talk.html
This underlies the great amount of complaining I have been doing about the TV stations, which complaining can be accessed at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html and links therein.
Thus far my complaining has not been responded to. I suspect after November 8th my complaining will continue.
I have tried to draw in Alabama professors of journalism and communications on this, but thus far to no avail.
Please accept this email, and its being added to https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html, only as a manifestation of how limited I am in my citizen status.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
Subject: Using you to continue to complain about AL TV stations
Dear Megan,
Earlier this week I tweeted the education news story you wrote (https://abc3340.com/newsletter-daily/tuscaloosa-city-schools-to-host-community-form-feedback-students-parents-northridge-high), and I added the same to https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-are-your-concerns-about-mtn-brook.html.
The Republicans have made education a prime 2022 election issue related to critical race theory, school closures in the pandemic, gender identification, and the indoctrination of students to be leftist socialists.
For me, the education issue exemplifies the nation's political and cultural polarization, in which extreme minorities on the two sides and their leaders control the politics and the political discourse, and in which they sideline the majority in the middle who can accept and would prefer agreements. This is accompanied by the two sides talking to only their own bases and not to the other side, and riling up their sides against the other side, and further by TV stations getting paid to run the one sided campaign ads that rile up the political bases against one another, and the TV stations failing their viewers by not informing them about how the viewers are subjected to one sided messaging to rile up the bases, and agreements being prevented on things that are acceptable to a majority in the middle but that are objected to by the extremes and their leaders who use their bases for the leaders to have power. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/02/can-two-sides-talk.html
This underlies the great amount of complaining I have been doing about the TV stations, which complaining can be accessed at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html and links therein.
Thus far my complaining has not been responded to. I suspect after November 8th my complaining will continue.
I have tried to draw in Alabama professors of journalism and communications on this, but thus far to no avail.
Please accept this email, and its being added to https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-do-al-tv-stations-live-up.html, only as a manifestation of how limited I am in my citizen status.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
@JackRoyer @UACCIS
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) November 7, 2022
I will be sending you an email that will continue my expression of complaints against Alabama TV stations, which complaints are most recently set out athttps://t.co/GUQbCttjrR.
Thank you.@ALBroadcasters @AlabamaTinsley#alpolitics https://t.co/ZyZqOSl7gR
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