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            Winthrop University’s Society of Professional Journalists and Mass Communication Department hosted a cultural event titled “The Future of News in the Age of Fake News” at 7:00 p.m. last Tuesday. People gathered in the Kinard Auditorium to listen to the five panelists from different backgrounds, who discussed the current state of fake news and ways to prevent it. One of the moderators for the event was Dr. Nathanial Fredrick who is a mass communication professor at the University, and he said fake news is not a new development.   “Fake news is as old as news itself.   It dates back to the printing press,” said Fredrick. According to journalistsresource.org, the term “fake news” can be defined in various ways depending on the context it is used in.   Fake news can be in the form of parodies, written pieces, or recorded segments, and it is often used to spread false information or conspiracy the...

In 1987, 21-year-old Diane Stordock agreed to get an abortion after the father of the child, who was her boyfriend and later husband, said, “I can’t stand the thought of that parasite in your body.”             After nearly 30 years, Stordock uses her story as a testimony to tell other women about God’s grace and mercy in her life and encourage them to seek His forgiveness regardless of how big they believe their sins are.             According to cdc.gov, there were approximately 1,353,671 abortions in 1987.   However, in the most recent CDC report from 2013, that number has dropped to 664,435 abortions.               This data shows that although the abortion rate has dropped about 49 percent in the 26 years between Stordock’s abortion and the most recent data, there is still a large number of wo...