2006-06-12 17:35:17 · 12 answers · asked by khm3rbabegurl 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
it depends on what type of trust. there is always room for errors. one station says the man was 40 another says 41. one says name hasnt been released of victim..while another releases..the names. this happens all the time. it is the job of the reporter.. to give both sides of a story..and unlike now on some national news..programs.. the reporters opinion should not be obvious. i am talkin ..straight news reports.. not like "meet the press" or anything. news reporters can or should only go with facts, not rumor and again some dont follow the rules. another issue is off the record" which means off the record. that info is just fyi... but there are some reporters..that run with it. i trust broadcast media more than print media.... and i trust local news.. more than national news. there have been alot of changes in the news business in the past years.. there was a time.. reporters didnt laugh and joke right after reporting a tragic...story..but some do now... i am shocked at the number of reporters that mispronounce the call letters of their own stations. for instance... how do you pronounce.. w-f-o-x. the first letter is double u. nine out of ten times i have heard dub-ya. pitiful. there are still a lot of good reporters out there and anchors.. but it has become so much about money.and power. katie couric i like but she is not what i would consider... a true news person. walter cronkite.. dan rather,... huntley and brinkley.. tom brokaw.. they are news people. katie is a celebrity type attending movie and t.v awards. i remember when news people didnt do commercials.. it took away their authoritative image. now some do. so do i trust the news.. unfortunately not like i use to. i remember when television networks.. backed their anchors and reporters to the end.. not now .. i guess the truth is told as much as it can be without outside censors.. and warnings.the good old news anchors..are a dying breed. i just saw a new female anchor being kissed on the mouth by another lady... for petes sake..you'd think it was brittany and madonna all over again. i miss tom brokaw...
2006-06-24 15:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No not always the govt. is lying to us about a lot...they dont want us to know.. one thing being 9-11 and the pentagon. The news and govt. says that a plane hit the penagon. But question how does a huge 757 hit the pentagon and not leave anything of the plane left behind. There was nothing but a hole not at all big enough for a plane and there were no marks on the lawn from the plane crashing...so the pilot would have to been able to fly this jet only like 2 feet from the ground to hit the spot on the pentagon without hitting the ground...were those highjackers really that good at flying i doubt it. even so there would be parts of a plane at the crash site. So if the govt is lying to us about that what else could they be hiding. Just think about it and you will see how much of a shadowed govt we have...
2006-06-13 00:47:00 · answer #2 · answered by dixie girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most news is slanted with editorial. Most news people at the national level were quick to say that there were no WMDs in Iraq - which was a mere theory - and "report" that Bush lied us into war. Now that hundreds of chemical and nerve agent weapons have been found, the national news media are not saying a thing, with only a couple of exceptions. No one is saying "man, I got it wrong. Bush didn't lie after all." Hard to trust the outlets who won't own up to their biases and self-report their mistakes.
2006-06-22 22:00:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should never trust anything as "gospel truth" but decide for yourself instead. The news on TV does have a lot of facts, but it is up to you to figure out the context of those facts, and to seek out other information from other sources.
To be more specific though, the media in the U.S. is probably one step away from being as censored as China's media is. Everything is filtered, the stories are very slanted, and quite frankly the media companies care more about profit than reporting honestly. My personal preference for the news is to read the BBC's news, which is still biased but not as bad. You can view them on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ There are other sources that I read too but that is one of the least biased that I've found, and very superior to any U.S. based media company.
2006-06-13 01:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by theboz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My belief is that our Media is pressured from a higher source to whitewash, and sanitize what they share with us.
It's just like what they do with Wheat. They strip off the bran, the heart of it, feed the most nutritious part to cows because beef is way up there in the stock market. Just compare it to wheat. They then try to sell us this white starchy leftover, and add back what they took out in the beginning, with Pseudo nutrients, and man made vitamins, and call it "Wonder Bread". Yep, we're screwed, glued, and tatttooed. ( A very old saying)...
Well, it is a Wonder we survive on what we are spoon fed through the Media, and how our food is raped, before we receive it.
2006-06-13 00:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by gypsyworks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot trust the media, because they are owned by special interests and influenced by the government! You must question everything you hear or read! Never base your life on what these people want you to believe! It's ok to be a skeptic.
2006-06-13 02:29:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't trust both...I get the general idea of a subject...but some news or papers either exagerate or it gets censored...which means us the audience gets excluded with the truth....but still not news and papers aren't like that...but I don't trust the news 100%
2006-06-13 00:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by vicizav_v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes...we can trust that its a govt approved , spoon fed pablum for Americans who have too little time or interest in the rest of the world to watch the bigger picture...McNiel Lehrer is a start...watch some worldnews...BBC... european ... egyptian ... and asian news...in english, of course...see what others think of us..in Argentina or Brasil.......get a true world perspective, like what's happening in Africa..war...aids...the catholic church denouncing use of condoms...it makes me ashamed to be white sometimes...
2006-06-22 00:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by captmarvel54 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media is carefully designed to form opinions not to inform.
2006-06-20 20:47:57 · answer #9 · answered by loon_mallet_wielder 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
newspapers and local news channels are way too liberal, there are two sides to every story and they just dont give you that option
2006-06-13 00:47:36 · answer #10 · answered by Blackfirefly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋