Do you beleive what the papers say?

Question

what newspaper do you read does it have an effect on they way that you view the world.

Answer 1

I have worked for a newspaper in the past & can assure you that selling newspapers is the important thing. Truth takes a back seat. Editors know that the majority of the public believe what they are told & they know what people want to read.
For example, the public are avidly reading everything they can get their hands on about the McCanns even though most of it is just speculation by journalists. Nonetheless there still appear front pages every day with nore "scoops". The more "scoops", the more papers sold.

Answer 2

I mostly get my news online, and my main source for that is Al Jazeera English. I feel it offers the most balanced coverage and actually gives the most weight to the most important stories.

I also read my campus newspaper, The Good Five Cent Cigar.

Of course where I get my news has an effect on how I view the world. I'm still capable of forming my own opinions, but at the very least your news source sets the agenda and largely influences what you think about or provides a context for anything issues you're concerned about that they don't report.

Answer 3

I believe about 90% of what I read in the papers. I always have that 10% doubt. I was always told to take what you hear with a grain of salt. What that means is basically don't take everything you hear or read as the absolute truth. I read the local area newspaper and the nearby county paper on occasion. I barely read the paper from the capitol city. It's always available online if I want to see it. I find the papers and the media to be somewhat depressing. I watch the news on TV and it makes me sad much of the time. I like when they have good news. They always put that on last. After they ruin your day, they want to try to leave you with a smile. lol....

Answer 4

You really cannot take everything you read, watch or listen to as truth any more. There are Liberal Media outlets as well as Conservative Media Outlets. There are not too many bipartisan ones. I like to take in all the facts I can on a topic from several different sources and generally the similarities in the articles will lead you somewhere close to the truth. What I see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears is what affects my view of society. Also, common sense helps.

Answer 5

Well, let's put it this way: if most of them told me that fish swim in water, I wouldn't believe it.

My day job is in a small newsagents and looking over the headlines in a morning makes me despair. You can predict with staggering accuracy how each paper, with its own slant and bias, is going to report the same story. In most cases (and certainly with the Right-leaning ones like the Mail and the Express) you can predict the headlines, word for word. The days of papers reporting news are long gone - now they largely create it and anyone who relies on just one source of news is going to end up being badly misled.

I read the Times, the Guardian, the Independent and various BBC and other sites.

As to how it changes my view of the world, my friends would probably say that I'm so cynical that it makes very little difference! I prefer to say that I try and look at all sides of things. :)

Answer 6

Newspapers and magazines (Time, Newsweek), are biased towards their political slants. If you would like to get a truer picture of the issues, I recommend reading more than one newspaper or magazine. Compare the facts in each story and you will be able to make up your own mind as to what is true or not. Knowledge is power! Don't limit yourself by one perspective. As an example, I read the Jerusalem Post online everyday to get the current events in Israel. But after I have finished reading, I go to the Al Jazeera site. Both are biased, but between the two, I might be able to get an idea of the truth.

Answer 7

I live in Bahrain so I read Gulf Daily News. I do think they exaggerate way too much. This guy he accidentaly spit his chewing gum out when he was throwing the gum into the dustbin and he missed. They wrote a whole 2 page article and the government read it and they fined him 50 Dinars ( currency in Bahrain) so yup, it's making my view of the world better than what it was before, I'm starting to see that the articals they write are no big deal. HOPE YOU'RE SATISFIED!!!!!

Answer 8

I don't suppose I should really be answering this question as I only read the headlines, if it looks as though it is not depressing or likely to wind me up, then I read the article. The paper I read is the Daily Mail purely because this was the paper I grew up with in my parents home.

Answer 9

Newspapers and journalist do in fact have to be very careful what they print and write because of the risk of libel if they get it wrong - that can be extremely expensive. Journalists are very clever with words and can lead you down a path of a story and sway your views. I believe a lot of what I read in the papers simply because I know they cannot simply "make it up" out of nowhere. I tend to listen to debates on the radio and watch the BBC news - I used to read the daily mail but it can be drepressing and make you too cynical if you constantly read newspapers!

Answer 10

Paul O'Gradys mother used to say that the only thing you could believe in a newspaper was the date