Do You Believe All The News On TV & The Radio?

Answer 1

Not all, but some. The media is driven to get the biggest audience possible because that translates into dollars. So they distort things, sometimes unknowingly, to push people's buttons and get their attention. They know how to do it. (The camera is always close up and in the face of someone that they want to portray as bad.) They are careful and sneaky in chosing words depending on how they want you to react. (if you're liberal you say "undocumented aliens" rather than "illegal immigrants"). They cut and edit so as to create an effect.

You have to read different sources for the same event to try to get an accurate picture. Ben Franky said that the only part of a newspaper story that you can believe is the headline. But even today it's suspect.

How can the press be free if it gets dollars from the government? That's NPR. It is in a sense government sponsored and controlled, liberal style. The NY tImes is notorious for it's liberal bias. That's their freedom and choice in America. But to have a government sponsored media outlet is something you should be wary of. The press in bed with the government is dangerous, like Pravda.

Answer 2

NO! They never give you the entire story and what they do tell you leaves you wondering where the rest is. I like to listen to talk radio because they will take an entire afternoon to discuss a topic rather then five minutes. Even then however you have to realize that they have their own agenda as well. I think the best thing to do is get information from several different sources and form your own opinion. Never let anyone spoon feed you information!

Answer 3

Anything that is reported as gossip, often is gossip. There may be some underlying truth about it all but, frankly, there are just too many tabloid reports out there because it's what sells and what the markets demand.

So no, and if it has to do with celebrities, I really don't care at all...it's like they're not even real people.

They transcend realism when they move into the world of the rich and famous...they may as well be aliens. It's like they've sold their soul to the devil and are lost causes, most of them anyhow. Maybe the odd few cling to some shadow of who they were in the past.

Answer 4

No because the TV and Radio only tell you negative sides of story's. All you hear about Iraq through them is the death toll. You have to pick up a book to find out how many schools we built there and how many people in Iraq have running water that didn't before. its not good for ratings.

Answer 5

Everything is usually filtered, so not to alarm the masses. It's also known that something on the front page that really is not NEW news, is there to deter public knowledge of something else. The TV permotes FAMILY, BUSINESS, and DEPRESSION just to keep the economy (wheels) of the country going. If they tell us many, many things people will hear what they want and therefore we all have our own opinion.

Answer 6

No. You have to research for yourself and find the truth. Try NPR (the program "The World" is very real and honest) or local public braodcasting. Why does the government want to cut the funding of public broadcasting? Because they are our only free voice left in the news world today!

Answer 7

You would have to be crazy or seriously deluded to believe the 'news'. Some of it is real, but most of the time, the journalists have no integrity, so facts become fiction, lines get blurred or outright crossed - and then suddenly America just wants to be entertained, not know the truth.

Answer 8

NONE of what you hear is true
When the stock brokers tell you nOT to buy oil stock
when they tell you to buy gold
when they telll you the about war
when they tell you anything its not TRUe

Answer 9

I don't believe anything that I hear and not a lot of what I read.

Answer 10

I just try to aviod the propaganda....difficult these days with the elections comming up !