​When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following :
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001
Please choose from 1 of these articles and determine if the information is true.
"Truth"
What is true in a 24/7 news cycle? In the past, newspapers, magazines, television broadcasts were vetted and edited. Today, anyone can publish "news".
"News literacy is defined as: The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet."
Post-Truth - It describes a situation in which feelings trump facts.
Valenza, Joyce. "Truth, truthiness, triangulation:
A news literacy toolkit for a 'post-truth' world."
Never Ending Search, School Library Journal, 26 Nov.
2016, blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26.
Accessed 27 Nov. 2016.