Factual or Satirical? | English

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for English we learned about what factual and satirical mean by looking at news sites and finding evidence on whether it is either factual or satirical. We looked at different sites from 4 different countries, the US (America), Australia, New Zealand, UK. After sorting the websites out we had to choose 2 websites from a country and compare them. 

The Herald

I chose to do one about a website from America. The websites are called The Herald and The Civilian. After choosing we then had to look at the articles on the website and compare one from each of the sites. 

For The Herald, I chose the article "Rugby: All Blacks schedule confirmed for July with tests against Tonga and Fiji".

For the site, The Civilian I chose the article "Will Steve Hansen’s plan to stack two All Blacks on top of each other in a big coat pay dividends?"

Just by looking at the articles, it is very obvious which one is factual and which one is satirical. The Herald is the real one because multiple articles can be seen about it when searched online, the title also sounds very relevant. While, for the Civilian, the title is very unconvincing and sounds absurd. There are also no other articles about the articles and is the only publishing about this particular topic. 

The Civilian 

Extra: Ways to Find out if a site is real or fake.

1. Is the site secure?
2. Do the articles shown on the website seem legitimate?
3. Check the URL, does it have a .com or does it have something you have never recognised before?
4. Look at others sources. Are they reporting the same news as the site you were previously looking at?
5. Reverse Image Search photos to check where they have come from.
6. Think Critically and question articles that may not seem legitimate.