{"id":55966,"date":"2017-03-15T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=55966"},"modified":"2017-03-15T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:19:10","slug":"video-chicago-high-school-teacher-struggles-to-address-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-chicago-high-school-teacher-struggles-to-address-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Chicago teacher struggles to address &#8216;fake news&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Marianna Brady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Teacher Mark Lenz is struggling to teach his English class students at Catalyst-Maria High School on Chicago\u2019s southwest side about sources now that President Donald Trump has claimed that CNN and other media organizations are \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lenz said he feels awkward that he is forced to contradict the president about what is \u201cfake\u201d and what is \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He realized it was time to address the concept head-on when a student asked if he could use CNN as a source in a research paper after Donald Trump was elected president. The student said he didn&#8217;t know if it was a valid source after Trump called the media organization \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000004865825\/trump-calls-cnn-fake-news.html\">fake news<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This video highlights the struggle to teach students to decipher truth from falsehood in the era of \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"&amp;quot;Fake news&amp;quot; in schools\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/208519364?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Students debate on February 22 Trump&#8217;s claims that CNN is &#8220;fake news.&#8221; (Marianna Brady\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marianna Brady Teacher Mark Lenz is struggling to teach his English class students at Catalyst-Maria High School on Chicago\u2019s southwest side about sources now that President Donald Trump has claimed that CNN and other media organizations are \u201cfake news.\u201d Lenz said he feels awkward that he is forced to contradict the president about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":55970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2017"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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