To What Extent Can We Trust The Media?

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  1. Fendi

    Fendi Level IV

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    A bit 1984 but how can we trust what we are told by newspapers and TV news? For all we know we are living in a propaganda state already. I have noticed recently how people are just accepting more and more what we are told by governments and the media, if people stop questioning why won't we be lied to?
     
  2. Angelika

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    I don't trust the media at all. They report things that sell...not the truth, and their sources aren't always credible. For example, the media insists that gas prices are at an all time high, which is completely false. If the prices are adjusted for inflation, it is nowhere near what the highest price was. They want to tell us how awful life is because that's what we want to hear, but much of it isn't even true.
     
  3. blake0_0

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    this is a debate that could go on forever but i wanted to post my opinion. I personally think the media can only be trusted for things that we can not see for ourselves. like a school shooting at the other end of the country that they have a helicopter camera view of the people running and such....but when it comes to gas prices, and things that we can actually see where we are...cant be trusted so much. I personally only watch the news when mom and dad have it on and i am to lazy to get up:p
     
  4. Phee

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    It's true- we could completely be living in a false world that is created by the government, or whoever. What we know is what we trust- I don't know FOR SURE that the 9/11 attacks happened, or that the earth is 8,000 miles in diameter, or that other people that I don't know even EXIST.

    For all I know, I could be living in a false pretense and everything I hear and know and learn are all one giant fabrication.
     
  5. Milanos

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    We live in the Matrix :p

    I think we can believe media a little bit. Not too much.
     
  6. soccermadness90

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    We can trust the media in somethings and we cannot trust them in others.

    We can trust the media in their reports of disasters. However we cannot trust them that all there is in our world is disasters. As newspapers are ment to sell and without over reporting on such things they would not sell as well.

    However we cannot trust them on touchy issues such as those regarding the government. This is because alot of them have to report "politically correct" things and are not exactly allowed to say everything and anything.
     
  7. vinceraf

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    I agree... here too is the same situation ¬.¬'
    Anyway... media are only a puppet in the hands of something more powerful. I don't trust the government... how could I trust medias?
    Everyday there are examples of different cases that confirm this... look at the recent events of Myanmar. How many people are really dead? Or look at Iraq... what is happening really? Or China... when Pope Wojtyla was dying, the government just didn't permit that tv showed the news.
    After seeing movies like Sicko and Fahrenheit 9/11 I've understood that in the US is the same situation... a lot of interests can destroy the real vision of facts.
     
  8. cindyaurorapoppins

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    Its a valid question asking if we can trust the media, but given the alternative of not trusting the media and being suspicious of everything that I am told, I think I would rather take the chance of being lied to sometimes.
     
  9. soccermadness90

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    you can, not trust the media and, be objective on your own and still there would be no need for suspicion of everything.
     
  10. bunnah

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    ROFL skeem495!!! u must be on the same s**t i am... lol gw....
     
  11. punkeydew

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    We can't


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    but what else is there to listen to

    freedom of speech.... freedom of media

    Pffft
     
  12. cindyaurorapoppins

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    How very true, good point. I don't mistrust the media very much when it comes down to it though.
     
  13. K1TT3N

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    Blah, I never listen to the media. Theyll tell you what you want to hear, and not the truth.
     
  14. lollollol

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    you have a good point! i need real facts, not just print. if they have video or what not, that is different
     
  16. lnconcise

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    we can't trust it very much!

    Honestly, they're all biased. They just have a good way of covering that bias up with lots of facts and opinions and botched up pictures of their opponents.
     
  17. sandman6

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    there is no extent that we can trust the media...it goes back to the point they try to look for the best shoot and try a story to it lie or truth but then they can turn just a normal pic into the biggest controversy and then it leads to money to sell and money is the root of all evil....