Consider a story you read in your newspaper today. How would that story be different in another paper? Is that story biased at all? Take a step back and consider whether the story is factual or opinionately influential. Regardless, do you trust it?
2006-08-26 13:40:33 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
It is a sad commentary on our country that the media, for the most part, is very biased toward the liberal viewpoint and we cannot trust much of what we hear as solid truth.
2006-08-26 13:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by missingora 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I don't trust anything i read or see on tv. Forgetting the fact that influence from some form of media is inevitible nowadays, i only read newspapers and watch the news to keep myself fairly knowledgable about the main current events. This doesn't mean i trust what i see, because you only have to look at the different perspectives taken by opposing newspapers, i.e the express and the mirror, to see it's impossible for them all to be totally truthful in what they are saying. They will report the same news events in their own way, sometimes blatently showing critical differences in the facts of the story. Therefore, how can you trust anything reported in the media? I think the closest one can get to finding truth in the media is to observe the same story/event from several different perspectives. For example, in my house, i often look up news on the internet, perhaps watch the evening news, and read both the daily express and the sun. From doing this, i feel i've absorbed all the things i've seen and read, and can make my own conclusion about the story i've seen rather than just trusting one company's opinions about it.
2006-08-26 13:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by sarz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you can't trust the media. We used to have two papers in Sacramento, but alas, the conservative Union is gone. The Bee is unabashedly biased so far left, it's unbelievable. Needless to say, many mindless sheep just soak their diatribe right up.
Thomas Jefferson used to think that people could sift through the opinionated press by reading different papers and extracting the truth through reasoning, but that required an educated electorate. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have much of that going on anymore. At least when perusing this particular website, it's evident that the vast majority of participants can't even spell, let alone think. So I guess it really doesn't make much difference about media bias.
Here's an interesting book on the subject:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/3/215106.shtml
2006-08-26 14:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You must consider who OWNS the media. Everyone can be bought for a price. There are certain "facts" out there that get blown up out of proportion because the government wants us to think these things are important, but they're not.
The root of all evil is the media. If you didn't have T.V. filling your head with crap you could form your own opinion about everything you see based on actual fact.
I can't wait till society breaks down so far we have to all colonize together in small towns again and live by our wits.
*sidenote* And when gasoline runs out I'm buying a horse.
2006-08-26 13:53:36 · answer #4 · answered by melbel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have a different headline, maybe. Many stories are from the AP and basically the same in every paper that uses them. This one seems biased. This one seems factually accurate, with derogatory desciptions of people the writer doesn't like. I trust it for the facts, but diregard the desciptions.
2006-08-26 15:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by Eric 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The country I stay in the newspaper alway put on a beautiful front for us. Government worries that citizen will get worry. So the new that we ready from the newspaper has very little bad things except wars or riots in others country. Well protected and saved to life in. Do you know where I live? Make a guest.
2006-08-26 14:47:19 · answer #6 · answered by Trouble 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i trust the media to a certain extent. I don;t believe everything i read in my local newspapers since the people who control what goes in their have an agenda of their own. I watch alot of news on TV and i know what is true, half truth and not true at all. I would also liek to believe that most peopel don;t just the media entirely.
2006-08-26 15:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by kara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just my opinion, but I think you can only take about 50% of what the news media says as truth. I believe that most are out just to sell papers or get top ratings and they will do what ever they have to to get it. I wrote an article on this very subject at "ericrs.blogspot.com". Again this is just my opinion.
2006-08-26 17:46:27 · answer #8 · answered by Eric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you can't trust the media, no more than you can trust people you don't know. You have to make a judgement and at the same time appreciate that they (the newspaper) have an agenda. Go with your agenda, it's not necessarily right but it is yours.
2006-08-26 14:05:34 · answer #9 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES, of course you can trust the media! They will continue to tell opinions as facts, print any story that might persuade you to buy it...Aliens in the white house, global warming good, and so on. You can always trust the media to live up to the standards that the public allows and encourages them to by buying it.
2006-08-27 03:33:03 · answer #10 · answered by mhfldr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All we have to do is take a look at how the Jon Benet Ramsey case was handled, MEDIA right from the beginning said her parents did it and for 10 long years most of us believed that but know we know better...Media can be a informative thing but also a very dangerous thing.
2006-08-26 13:49:04 · answer #11 · answered by gonicki31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋