Is media coverage of events ruining the USA?

Question

With tv, newspapers, and the radio among others wanting to carry the news everybody hears first, is it unrelyable? I couldn't tell you how many times they changed the death tool after the minnesota bridge collapse. Same with events happening it in Iraq and what happened with Hurricane Katrina. So when we don't recieve the information correctly it throws off the perspective we have on the situation making us to react differently than if we heard the news without bias and factual information only, Right?

Answer 1

The USA has prospered despite a sensationalist and often biased media since day one so, even though I dislike it, I'd have to say no.

Answer 2

What concerns me more is

(1) how they politically don't cover some items to protect their "friends," whoever they are;
(2) how they blow up some small story to hide what George B. is doing or not doing now;
(3) When a friend said he kept working at the local paper when they edited his stories to death, but he quit when they started changing the "direct quotes."

When I was falsely arrested while trying to sit and read a public file, the Police Chief who arrested me, and wrote a totally fasle police report, made sure than no newspaper would cover anything of the story. When I went to see my complaint his name was left off of it. When I complained the lady at the reception desk she said "Well, that's the way we do it here." A pretty cool job for over $100,000 when you can do anything you want and all the politicians and newspapers are so crooked to let you get away with false police reports and arrests, and a phony trial. You cannot fight a crooked city, court, sherrif's office and District Attorney's office I guess. My trial was intersting too, none of the 7 witnesses were called, no documents were filed in my behalf and I was not allowed to speak or fire my attorney who was not representing me. Ah America....what has it come to.

Jay

Answer 3

Different sources will give different estimates depending on what they specialize in, what their coverage is like, how often they update their information, etc. For instance, FEMA may give one death count from Katrina, while the Red Cross offers a different number. That's why you usually hear the word 'about' or 'roughly' tacked into those statements, because there is never complete certainty.
These sort of things happen in other countries besides America. It just makes us look like everybody else.

Answer 4

Media coverage isn't ruining the USA,it's the perception of how this information is received.

People need to learn to educate themselves,before forming educated opinions.

Answer 5

Don't think so.
Just living human kind living in misery with commumication problems with misinterpretation, miscommunication, communication failures and communication break-down in ghostly and deadly words.

Answer 6

RIGHT, You can't believe every thing you hear on the news and that's the TRUTH.

Answer 7

Right!

Answer 8

YES