Why do people hate the media?

Answer 1

They have a great deal of power. And they are a double edged sword. On the one hand, they keep the public informed. On the other hand, they are invasive and aggressive and have little regard for privacy when it comes to newsworthy events.

Answer 2

Competing media simply confuse the real issues. For example, the radio media insist the newspaper media is liberal while they are conservatives. Yet it's the corporations that own the newspapers. And smaller corportations own the radio stations. As far as I know, corporations are not too liberal, especially with money and boosting taxes to help the needy. Sure the newspapers might advocated helping the needy, but that's image only, in reality they are concerned about the bottom line, profits. Thus the media is dishonest.

Also the media is an false authority on many subject it reports. Most are clueless to what goes on behind close doors at the White House, but they report as though they know. They don't know. Some aide leaks them misleading information then the media without checking the sources runs the story. A false, misleading story. And the media is to blame for reporting lies, not the aide.

The reason people hate the media is because the media act as though they are the all knowing authority on subjects which they are truly clueless about.

Answer 3

As for myself, I don't hate the media. but I can think of reasons why people hate it.

1. Some people who don't control the media, hate the media.

2. People who are knowledge of at least some of facts tend to see the media's view as distorted or misleading. The see this distortion as intentional lying. .

3. "Shoot the messenger" syndrome. They associate the media with the news they present and somehow feel that the media is responsible.

4. "Media events", Some group stage's a media event and the media covers it. Sometime this may be good, but I can not help thinking of the video in the first Iraq war, where the media was showed a bombed "baby food" factory. How did we know it was a baby food factory, because the employee's were all wearing lab coats with "baby food factory" written in English on the backs. I not sure why the media showed this "evidence" that the factory was not creating chemical weapons but was a baby food factory.

Answer 4

People hate the media because the media incessantly exploit, sensationalize and editorialize when they should simply report.
Where does one go these days for balanced news reporting in the U.S. media? If you're leftist you can go to a leftist news channel. If you're right wing and conservative you can go to the right wing media. You need not interact with the opposing point of view. You can be comfortably ensconced in your own perspective. Where, then, is the discourse? Where is the dialogue? How will we resolve anything? These days, the media are a tool, rather than an independent entity, although you could make a case that it's always been that way. However, I think in recent decades the number of independent papers has shrunk considerably, and so have those independent voices.

I think that's why more people watch Cartoon Network, TVLand and/or tune out and plug in to their IPODs.

Or escape with Yahoo! Answers!

Answer 5

The news media have a job to produce news or actually to write about events, but they need to produce news everyday and that leads to short-cuts, conjecture, and extrapolations on events or possible events. I can't imagine turning on the TV and hearing an anchor-man saying 'sorry no news today as nothing happened'. The reporters get blood-thirsty and interview the 5th cousin of a mass-murderer because they met when they were 5 years old. That's bad but not as bad as the reporters that dramatize what people have said and put their own spin on to it.The news media is so hungry that they rehash old stories. Just recently there was a news story about the ancient buildings being damaged by present day pollution...it is news? National Geographic had an article about that many years ago...is it news? Sometimes things are stirred by press, as was the Spanish-American War. When people feel cheated or have been mislead, they resent it and the cause.

Answer 6

People who "hate" the media are generally those who prefer the comfort of their own ignorance. Many people stop learning before they even leave high school, and thereafter find the effort to seek and analyze information too bothersome. They feel that they already know all they need to know, and therefore find anything that tries to "teach" them anything new distasteful. So, politicians will use the ignorance of the masses as a tool to create distrust of the media, since most politicians also dislike the media and it's quest to uncover truths which might embarrass politicians or threaten their power.

Answer 7

The Media sells news and make ton of money from selling advertisements.They get pay so much money while others do not have a chance.People receive negative and positive news every day and he or she has to learn how to digest it.News can be harmful for the health and well being.It is 21 century and people do not have principle no more as well as media.

Answer 8

They are motivated my money anymore. Almost all media now is owned by extremely large conglomerants and are partisan about politics. Most have some sort of Neocon lean to them but there are a few, like the comedy channel that are more left leaning.

There is no such thing as investagitive reporting anymore, just sound bites. Very sad. It means the end of the informed citizen unless you can find unbiased sources like PBS or NPR.

Answer 9

It's not hate so much as it is "hold in great disdain".
The media give their own "spin" now instead of just reporting what happened.
A person seems not to be intelligent if he/she gets information from a single source. It's another way the media tries to control what we think. A comparison of sources can allow a person to sift through the garbage and glean what really happened. Conspiracy theories notwithstanding...

Answer 10

Because the media feel they have the right to butt into people's personal lives. If you notice, in certain cases, they're parked outside someone's front door. That my friend, is an invasion of privacy, and that's why most people can't stand the media..

Answer 11

People naturally hate and fear anything with power, and the media most definitely has it. There's a deep suspicion that gets pushed into people when their views happen to disagree with one's own--people think that what they say is intended to manipulate them to think or believe in some particular way. That fear of such things isn't necessarily always off. After all, there are corrupt and biased journalists.