[originaltext]W: There is a national movement in schools to teach media literac

W: There is a national movement in schools to teach media literacy skills to teenagers who are growing up with access to more information than any previous generation. In an era marked by calls of fake news and declining trust in media, we turned to Student Reporting Labs to learn more about how young people experience news and how they think about journalism. Tonight, we have John from Harvard University with us.
M: You don’t really know what you can believe, because there are so many sources saying so many different things. It’s weakening trust between the media and the audience.
W: I’m pretty sure that I have shared fake news, but I didn’t realize it until someone corrected me.
M: No one seems to know what to trust and what not to trust anymore.
W: Yes. We’re having a problem of people actually believing it, and then going forward with that news to have riots and things like that.
M: I believe that it’s a new epidemic, because people don’t understand how fast fake news spreads.
W: But do you think fake news is a serious social problem?
M: I don’t necessarily think fake news is a problem so much as misinformation. People often are keen to take whatever information they’re given right off the bat, sometimes without kind of thinking about where it’s coming from or what it implies.
W: I bet it is a person’s first instinct to believe that what they see is true. People need to double-check that, and make sure that they’re getting the information from reliable sources.
M: Journalism definitely does matter. It is the purest form of communication between people, the politics and global issues. So, public media should take more responsibilities for spreading true stories.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. Why does the man say that you don’t really know what you can believe?
13. What does the new epidemic refer to?
14. What should people do to avoid being fooled by fake news?
15. Who should be more responsible for spreading true stories according to the man?