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We continue our discussion of the art of Fake News and art and Fake News
(etc.) with a somewhat unusual course.
At the start of 2017, launching on Inauguration Day, Talan Memmott and I
offered a course through UnderAcademy College entitled, How to Write and
Read Fake News: Journullism in the Age of Trump. UnderAcademy College is a
non-degree granting un-institution founded on the model of Black Mountain
College.
The course offered to teach how to write Fake News (is my capitalization of
that bugging anyone else but me?), although we may not have entirely been
in bed with the devil. Or if we were in bed with the devil, we were doing
an awful lot of faking it. And, consequently, were quite unsatisfied with
his performance but had forfeited our right to blame other people for the
bed we had made. So you know, basically feeling like most of America. You
can see the sillybus here:
https://medium.com/the-fake-news-reader/the-fake-news-course-sillybus-d68953d6abf5
All of the materials for this class are freely available online for your
own adaptation and perversion. And I should mention that this course, like
all UnderAcademy College courses, is free and that I (still) have not been
paid for teaching said course.
Our first lesson was: How to Fake News, which you can see here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex8Zi15UTJo
In that lesson, we introduced our (patent-pending) 80-20-10 method for
writing Fake News. Now, none of our 100-or-so students, real and fake,
have reported back on whether or not this lesson led to them making mad
money from their Fake News writing, but most accounts suggest that in
spite of (or actually because of) a growing awareness of the scourge of
Fake News, there's big money to be had.
And in the age of Trump, what more evidence of a successful educational
operation could their be than loads of money -- or at least lawsuits?
How do you feel about teaching people to write Fake News as a response to
Fake News? Does that sound sophomoric or are you just being uptight? We
realize those aren't the only two options, so we have an open essay
response we're also accepting but probably won't count towards your grade.
Love,
Mark
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