Daily Lies
The newspapers I read are either The Independent or The Guardian. I’m not being a snob, they are just the one’s I read and I feel that they are a lot less biased and hypocritical than a lot of the other newspapers available. Sure, they will have a slant in certain directions but I feel it is minimal.
There are however many many other newspapers who have their own agenda and distort stories to fulfil this and that makes me mad. What makes me even madder is that the readership of these papers, a very large readership, do not seem to understand this, taking it as gospel, and then blindly accepting this view as their own.
If you are intelligent then you will already know the papers I’m talking about: The Sun and The Daily Mail being the main offenders. Some of the stories they write are so astoundingly biased, so absurd, that it’s amazing that everyone can’t see through them and the politics behind every item, but no that is not the case.
There are however quite a few blogs that like to point out these and here are a selection:
I’d recommend that you add these to your daily rss feeds so that you can get a view of the kind of tripe that the masses are fed daily and how ‘journalism’ can make any story out of just a few facts (even incorrect ones), usually with a smattering of xenophobia or homophobia thrown in for good measure.
The lesson is to look at the big picture and ask yourselves why they are writing these stories and what their agendas are.
I agree with what you say, and I generally think the same, but how do we know that people believe what is written in these papers? Are we right to assume this? Do we assume that because we don’t read them and others do that they must believe everything in the paper, purely because they’ve bought it? By the same token then do we believe everything we read from our “trusted” news sources?
Maybe they read those types of papers because they echo their own views, but you can’t deny that tabloids etc come up with sensationalist headlines purely to sell papers. It doesn’t need to be th truth at all and any story can be twisted to pander to what they know will sell. Immigration, Princess Diana, etc. will always appeal to the proletariat reading the Sun or the Mail.
I wouldn’t say that we are always to believe what comes from ‘trusted sources’ but I’m more inclined to believe there is less bias in these publications, or if there is I know where they’re coming from.
Tabloids in particular will create headlines which sells papers, but I didn’t think that was the point of the article, more that they simply make stuff up, and people are idiots for believing it.
All of which I believe is true too, but just grabbing a devil’s advocate stance here – we have no evidence to back this up, only what we assume.
I don’t know if it’s the same SUN as we get here in Canada but… oh, what a rag!
It’s crazy. Here, this piece of merde (if I say it in French, I can, right
) is sold 25 cents, so it’s everywhere. People read it on the bus, in cafés, they leave it around… and the whole newspapers is just right-wing conservative bullsh*t.
The whole newspaper revolves around the ideas that young people are “punks”, old people are “good veterans”, immigrants are “expensive, illiterate and often illegals”, French are “a bunch of whiners”, left-wing are “useless hippies who can’t get a job” etc etc.
Makes me sick.