Can We Trust Them?
The week is August 26th, 2011.
This week in the news brings us a hidden dictator, a quake full of Earth, a media-generated "New York destroyer", a loss of orange in the red & white, and a celebrity romance that has supposedly ended...?
We watch the news wherever we are, whenever we can, however we want to. There's no denying that. But we rely too much on the news. I, for one, want to be in control of that, hence me taking Journalism in college. And what I've noticed this week is that there were too many stories that the media picked up that were either untrue or false. And I'm sure this isn't the first time. Newscasters report on information they receive from news outlets; The Canadian Press...etc. One thing they don't do a lot anymore is revise the story, check it over, or tweak a few mistakes or update it if it's been updated. Much of the news we see and/or read is published without any hesitation to review it, thinking it came...