why do we judge people from what media says about them?

Answer 1

Because we are British and like it or not...some of us can't think for ourselves. Funny really, but I've noticed in places where metropolitan cities tend to sneer at - North East, Ireland, Northern Scotland and Wales (Ladymoon notwithstanding), people are indeed down to earth and read betwen the lines...with a name like Ahmed - I'm sure you've come in for some shallow personal verdicts in the past few years.

Answer 2

This is an excellent question. Probably one of the best I've read since joining yahoo answers.

To answer your question (and this is just my opinion) we seem to live in a place in time where most people are mis informed,uneducated, lack the ability to research, ask questions, be open minded...etc, etc...

In saying that, the media (knowingly) will replicate, magnify things that are completely irrelevant sometimes just because it sells, and it sells because these same mis informed people by into it time and time again instead of that "it" kicking in and saying "hey didn't this same stuff get reported once before?" or just turn a blind eye to it.


There is an old saying "people are bought and sold everyday" for a reason.

Just my 2 cents.

Remember this quote :

" It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno

Answer 3

Good question, but who exactly is we? And what is the media saying exactly? I sure as hell don't use the medua in my opinions about any, and will go as far as to say I don't know anyone who does. Then again, I'm a conservative, and my knee jerk reaction to the mainstream media is that there is such a barely masked bias, that most aren't remotely worth taking seriously.

Answer 4

What the newspapers print about people is probably wrong more than it is right. As long as they put the word "alleged" some where in the sentence they can say what they like. ( it was alleged that Miss Twitter was nothing but a compulsive liar and a thief.) This word lets` them of the slander hook.

Answer 5

we judge people by what the media says because we are a gossip hungry, celebrity obsessed, pathetic nation of people. Rather than experience life we'd rather read about it. we'd rather listen to an overpaid journalist spout off rubbish about a persons private life that he or she has never met. Listen to them write an article about a person he has taken a picture of doing something which they consider to be 'wrong' for someone in the public eye. Its easier for us to listen to what these sewer rates write rather than actually formulate our own opinion or just have to use the brain power to understand that even celebrities or peopel in the public eye or just people.

we are a nation consuming itself and quite frankly its pathetic

Answer 6

I dont believe anything the media write about people. They are notorious for building people up just to knock them back down - look what they did to Princess Diana, how they've treated David Beckham just for example. The media will write anything about anyone just to sell their paper.

Answer 7

Depends what the media is saying about them

If the media is reporting the FACT that a person has committed mass murder, well I dunno about you but I automatically tend to think they're a bit of an evil monster.

If the media reports the FACT that a Muslim cleric is preaching hatred against the West I judge him as a nasty little racist man who is trying cause trouble.

Why, what would YOU judge them as?

Answer 8

In general terms despite the wealth of information available people often learn about different cultures and people from the newspapers. Sadly what we learn from the media is often inaccurate and frequently misleading, sometimes i suspect it is deliberately so in order to sell their service(s)
Human nature being what it is, people believe what they want to or have been conditioned to believe.

Sometimes this is due to ignorance and can lead to an irrational fear of another culture/people

Some culture's do not help themselves in the way they present themselves. This in its self can lead to misunderstanding and fear!

Answer 9

i think the media judge the people as they make up the stories so we read someone else's thoughts. think about it.

Answer 10

I don't judge anybody. I don't read mags or the papers as I feel that what other people do or get up to in their lives is nobody elses business but their own !!!!!!!