Happy to post a correction if you have any sources saying so, but the article sources an interview with Ben of Ben and Jerry's. Everything I shared was quoted from him in that interview. So to my knowledge, true facts, just not truthy because it's nucking futs.

News literacy, that is, knowledge of how the news is written and should be read, is in increasing demand in schools around the nation, according to an article in the Washington Post . Nonprofits like Maryland-based News Literacy Project are cropping up and growing larger. They aim to assist students on how to read and analyze the myriad of news stories they're inundated with every day. One of the primary focuses is fact-checking. When 17-year old Montgomery Blair High School student Ife Adona found a picture of Selena Gomez posing on the cover of an adult magazine, she knew to look for other sources to confirm or deny her findings (turns out the cover was a fake.). Alan C. Miller, President of News Literacy Project, said that one of the main aims of the organization's was to instill students with the ability to “sort fact from fiction in the digital age.” He went on to say that “We focus heavily on using the standards of quality journalism to assess the credibility of all news and information[.]” The program brings in a number of journalists into the classrooms, including personnel from organizations such as the New York Times, ProPublica, NPR, CBS News and The Washington Post. NBC correspondent Tracie Potts, on one visit, brought in polls about sequestration from different sources, urging the learners to ask questions like “Who can I trust?” “Where is this information coming from?” “How can we say that one source of news is better than another?” When the News Literacy Project began in Maryland, it only reached about 650 students in Maryland and New York. In the time since, the project has spread to Chicago, Washington D.C., and Virginia, and is expected to reach an estimated 3,800 students. One high school principle lauded the program, saying “It helps students understand what they should believe and not believe and what sort of research they should do[.]” It really is hard for me to express how much I support this idea. This goes beyond just literacy in the news and touches on the literacy of truth. The truth, in this case, is what can be found in multiple sources. When printed media first came into being, people would believe anything that was printed. In a time where anyone can propagate myths and create effective hoaxes (#cut4bieber and #bald4bieber come to mind), it's absolutely dire that we instill in children and young adults how important it is to verify information and discern reliable sources. This even crosses into my own area of interest, science. Skepticism is absolutely necessary for science, as we cannot prove anything one hundred percent, we can only find supporting evidence. If you don't believe the results of a scientific experiment, you are not only able but encouraged to find evidence to the contrary, even if it means doing the experiment yourself. News literacy (and the skepticism and requirement for multiple sources inherent in it), in my opinion, is absolutely vital for discernment of factuality in this age of information bombardment. And because we have so much of this information available to us, there's no reason anyone should have their facts wrong anymore.