Tuesday, March 6, 2007

TO SPIN OR NOT TO SPIN?

I don't believe that falsifying the news or fabricating news stories is a major problem of the press in the United States. You always here that the news organizations are bringing you the facts and the true details of every story that the submit to their audience, but in reality they are usually putting a spin on their story. I don't think that the "spin" of a story is necessarily falsifying though, I do think that the "spin" is used to get the audience to think a certain, either for or against a certain ideology. Basically each medium of the press wants to get the highest percentage of the audience out there and sometimes mistakes are made in the stories they present, but I feel that this is highly unintentional, and if it is intentional they do a very good job of hiding what they are doing. I want to be believe that the press is not lying to me, but I think that most of the American public (including myself) don't do enough of a background check to find every little fact to be either true or false.Check Spelling

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