Verifying information

May 10, 2011 - 10:36am — Bibliofuture

Information literacy. If you worked for a television station that was running a story about Seal Team 6 and you wanted their logo where would you go? The Internet of course. Simple task, it would seem, but here is a story about a station that got it wrong. One point is that verification is an important part of information retrieval. Answer was on the Internet but they did not find it. At least not at first.