There are millions of newspapers where people read on the events of the world. There are hundreds of websites which are supposed to give a objective narration on the happenings of the world. BUT do they actually do this?
Very few news media actually give us the true objective, and neutral story, but a terrible and monstrous number of them do not. It is because of these newspapers which do not tell the full and neutral story which brainwash and in a way betray us. The vast majority of the people on the planet, think that because they read it in their daily famous newspaper, that everything that is being said is all true and that there is no reason to think that a bais statement is being formed. Many people think that what they are reading is the pure truth and that anything else is suspicious material.
The reason that the vast majority of the world´s population think this, is because the the people think that since the news media has the responsibility to inform us in an objective way, we have to believe them. Why would they not live up to their responsibility? Their famous, accurate and sound formal, and important. BUT what most of us forget is that they are also human, they can commit errors of judgement, they can lie, they can unconsciously send a subliminal opinion to us by the way that they write the news, they can give us a feelings of resentment to the people that are being tried for something. They can let people down just like the rest of us.
Although the journalists are all human, and can let us down, no one expects this to happen. WHY? This is because we suffer over confidence, we think that this piece of text can be precise, just because the newspaper is famous, just because they seem to write elegant and intelligently, because they seem to know what they are talking about, and above all, because they have a responsibility to tell us the truth in an objective manner, so why should they let us down? They are special after all, they are good enough to be hired in a newspaper that has been reporting the events of the world to me for my whole life, so why no trust them.
BUT we often forget the responsibility that we hold, which is to question and form our own opinion, to see and look at other sources, even though they aren´t that famous. We have the responsibility to think about what we are absorbing, and the power that we have when we speak.
If we narrate a bias statement that we have read, to another person, then already two people hold a potencial weapon that could affect public opinion and that might even have consequences on a governmental level, and this virus just keeps spreading just by a simple sentence.
Some might criticize the power that the media has, and it disappointing us by giving us a subjective and bias text, but we don´t look at the responsibility that we hold, if we read a text that sounds bias or that you might doubt, then you shouldn´t leave it at that, look at other newspapers, research alittle. The power of what you say daily, may lay in what you read daily.
I will give you and example that happened with the newspaper Daily Mail on the case of the murder of Meredith Kercher.
This specific newspaper already had an article on the court denying the appeal for Amanda Knox. When they heard the news that she was guilty, they didn´t even stop to hear the whole thing, they published the story the fastest that they could, so they could be the first news media out with the article, but what use was it to be the first in having published the article if the information wasn´t accurate.
Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, was given the appeal, but was guilty of SLANDER NOT MURDER. Therefore she was given the appeal and she was free along with her ex-boyfriend.
Anyone who read this article would have been wrongly informed. Spreading this news would have been a further problem because, this would have passed on the wrong news, diminishing the power of what people would say, and allowing them to form their own opinion on something that did not happen, blinding them with a wall of ignorance.
And this would be all caused because, the newspaper did not honor it´s responsibility, and because we didn´t honor our´s either. If one of the two would have followed what they were responsable for, none of this would have ever happened.
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