MEDIALITERACY
24 Jan 2017

Golden fish

Samvel Martirosyan speaks about a phenomenon that we can frequently come across in the Internet; articles with quite remarkable headlines appear, which cannot be skipped from the user's attention.


Samvel Martirosyan speaks about a phenomenon that we can frequently come across in the Internet; articles with quite remarkable headlines appear, which cannot be skipped from the user's attention. For instance, ''Lake Sevan: Armenian scientists' shocking discovery'' an article with such a headline cannot but be interesting. It is described in the article that the ground of Lake Sevan is completely covered with gold-the stones and even the sand. Moreover, continuing reading the article it turns out that there are gold fish living in it. Naturally, everyone starts sharing this post. But there is a problem here: when we go on reading, it is written in the end of the article that it is an April Fools’ joke. A Media specialist notices that all news websites make such articles on this day to entertain the readers, but several days later these ‘’news’’ still start to be spread. Samvel Martirosyan advises to pay attention to the date of publication of the article.