Why do the public beieve all that is written in the media,surely they can not...

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...be that ignorant? People say no smoke without fire,etc.,maybe when anything happens to them they will feel different.
 
unfortunatly some people are that ignorant.Although over the past few years it has come to peoples attension that the media do not always print the truth.But on the plus the papers do often help people ,what with charitys adverts ,book reviews promotions and such so people are always going to buy them,blokes like boobs too and sport ect The media should only print the truth/facts and that goes for pictures of airbrushed woman and maybe they could focus on some stories that did'nt involve rape(some papers write these stories as if its titilation)its sick.!.as i was saying focus on some positive things that are going on in the world .If we were to belive everything written the media we would belive nothing good happens in the world,but its not true because it dose happen.
 
Personally yes i try and take everything i read with a pinch of salt, everyone who writes does so with their own opinions on a situation and there will always be their own bias in the words they use. some of the tabloids representations of immigration and assylum i think are can be downright dangerous and promote a witchhunt. I find it can help to do some research on anything i do want more information on, but thats time consuming and honestly i dont do so very often unless a story really gets under my skin.

I'm more wary perhaps now than i was after my friend got caught for a graffiti case this year, and it went to trial. The whole newspaper coverage was conducted second hand from a police report and contained inaccuracies that had been dismissed by the defence during the case was presented as fact. i believe the media can be very selective at chosing which facts to print to strengthen the point of view they want to put across- but the i suppose any writing, essays, books, journals are probably guilty of similar things.

People believe what they read in the media because its easier not to question it. And if its something that reinforces their previous beliefs/ stereotypes they'll believe it more. It's not that the media lies, not deliberately, its just that it distorts things because all news is open to human interpretation before being written up.
 
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