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Honour in the Media
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Is there any media, i.e. TV Station, Newspaper, website, etc that actually believes in printing the truth these days and actually checking the facts and giving a true and balanced view of any given situation?
I hate it when the media misreport things but never thought I'd actually be touched by it until New Years Eve, when all the headlines and all the websites said there was not going to be any tubes running.
So a few friends of mine cancelled and didn't come, etc and in the end it turned out there were running just fine... just at a reduced level and with 39 or so stations closed.
Reports of 200,000 people in London on NYE is nothing compared to a normal year I'm sure - pubs and clubs were seriously empty.
Now I see all the newspapers runnign stories of the surviving miners in the USA which actually died. And then there was the Brazilian guy who was shot in London by the police and all the reports that first came out were totally wrong from the truth... does anyone ever bother to check the facts anymore? before rushing to print?
I hate it when the media misreport things but never thought I'd actually be touched by it until New Years Eve, when all the headlines and all the websites said there was not going to be any tubes running.
So a few friends of mine cancelled and didn't come, etc and in the end it turned out there were running just fine... just at a reduced level and with 39 or so stations closed.
Reports of 200,000 people in London on NYE is nothing compared to a normal year I'm sure - pubs and clubs were seriously empty.
Now I see all the newspapers runnign stories of the surviving miners in the USA which actually died. And then there was the Brazilian guy who was shot in London by the police and all the reports that first came out were totally wrong from the truth... does anyone ever bother to check the facts anymore? before rushing to print?
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See, it's far, far, more interesting if you twist it and change it a little, you can make it sound better and make people think it's bigger. Thats what its about - not telling you anything.
But what is the truth anyway? Nobody can be unbiased.
Fascts should be fact, they are eithe true or lies, like the miners they are either dead or alive
Like the brazilian guy shot in London, he either walked through normally and paid with an oster card or he jumped over the barriers.
First stories inthe news all said he wore a heavy, padded jacket and jumped over the barriers and days later it was proved both were lies .. lies shouldn't even be printed...
The media lied about the tube strike and the result was thousands of people stayed away from London. They twisted the words of Jerold Ratner years ago and as a result hundres of people lost their jobs when his chain of shops went bust cos of the false reporting in the press.
The media have no honour, they can lie one day and sell loads of papers and tell the truth the next day and sell the corrected version.
That's not how it works.
There will be three facts for one argument, and three for another. You will naturally place more importance on the facts that support your opinion. Everyone has an opinion.
But the media didn't tell the lie, they reported what they had been told.
The mining accident wasn't a lie, it was a misheard message that was never printed in the media.
They said the RMT were on strike, and there would be few tubes. There were few tubes, only running because of scabs.
No, he actually did say that he sold shit at greatly inflated prices. It was hilarious. Nobody lost their jobs, most became H Samuel.
Yesterday's gem that I (for obvious reasons) picked up on was "Hospital cuts low-priority surgery". Problem was, it wasn't a hospital involved and there were no cuts.
Problem now is that I don't have any faith in any news organisation when it comes to balanced reporting. In fact, since the internet, this has only become worse.
The USA miners incident, however, was unforgivable. From what I understand on ITV News last night, the message got out that all 12 were alive. Reporters rushed to type the stories up and sent them to the newspapers. They went to print. But as soon as they'd finished printing, it emerged 11 of them were actually dead. How on earth the 'miscommunication' happened, we don't know, but the newspapers should have known better. Or should they?
You could just show all the facts, or is that too much to ask?
I understand you work in the law though, so you won't deal with them often.
The total number of facts in a daily newspaper would fill half a side of A4. The rest is just specualtion, as SG says.
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Truth is beauty, Beauty Truth.
Yes, they do, but more often than not the media works on spin, not on lies.
The story you quote will have had some truth in it, but the spin makes it seem something its not. Headlines often are lies, just to make people read the story.
I'll put it this way: the way the local newspaper reports my work, they might as well be in another court. But what they print is what was said, and is the truth, its just written in such a way to make it seem something its not.
If the media do lie - why do many people on this board (including myself) keeping posting media stories as evidence for their point of view?