Should it be illegal for a news station or news paper to post false news? There is so much corruption in the media now. I am personally getting sick and tired of watching the news and seeing them post just completely false or inaccurate news. I am curious to see what others thoughts and opinions are on this subject.
It's not as if the media is putting out material that is [i]absolutely[b] incorrect but maybe something else. There is this neat thing my AP Biology teacher talked about last week with using correct data to get a point across that doesn't use the data correctly.
To further explain my point, I have this graph to show you all. Sure, the data on it is correct, the temperature of the Earth is increasing and the number of pirates is decreasing, but you are comparing two things that don't go together. Sure, you could use the Scientific Method to plan an experiment seeing whether increasing the amount of pirates lowers the average global temperature but is it really necessary? In fact, there's even a possibility that while going through the loop, certain facts and details were misinterpreted and therefore making the news less believable, or maybe even flat out misinformed xD.
Either way, it's still manipulation and I'm totally against that
i read something in uncle johns that the vietnam war was caused because of a news reporter saying vietnam launched torpedoes at a ship even though they didn't. i say yes.
Well its only the little news stations that will really suffer. They dont have teams of lawyers scrawling thru every report to clean it of anything that could be used to incriminate them. They never "lie" but they do bend and twist truths.
uh. the media doesnt lie. they only present part of the information to it's viewers. learn more facts, before trying to make a "seemingly" intelligent post.
It should be illegal for the media to lie to the public. I'm pretty sure that purposefully misinforming the public is an obscure form of fraud. But alot of the time, the media has to withhold information because of the country's privacy laws.
Should it be illegal for a news station or news paper to post false news?
If it's about a person, then I think it is illegal, isn't it? Slander/libel/defamatory? But I don't think media stations actually lie, they're too smart for that. They twist the truth in a certain perspective, which isn't technically lying.
There is so much corruption in the media now.
You act like it's only in the media.
I am personally getting sick and tired of watching the news and seeing them post just completely false or inaccurate news.
Like I said, I don't think they actually lie. They just exaggerate(Legal: Fox News has just crossed out my last word and due to legal reasons I am obligated to call it "making the news more interesting so that people will want to watch, so that everyone will know the truth!". They "make the news more interesting so that people will want to watch so that everyone will know the truth", they twist it so that you're seeing it from a certain perspective(the Ground Zero Mosque uproar is a prime example of this), etc....but they don't really lie. Just try to watch some of the less deceitful(Legal: The National Enquirer has just cancelled out my last line and are forcing me to replace it with "Honest to the readers who are interested in the truth!", er honest to the true readers who are interested in the truth, and watch some of the more honest stations or read some of the better papers.
I am curious to see what others thoughts and opinions are on this subject.
I hate it also, but what are you going to do? Besides, how do we know for sure that media stations are lying? We hear something different from another outlet? How do we know who's telling the truth? They're all biased. And I'd also like some links to your sources.
