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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The mass media plays an important role in our life by providing news that happens around the world to us. However, in recent times, the mass media make the news and do not report the news. I will discuss about it with evidences supported from recent events. The definition of recent events is happenings that are reported from now to a few years ago.
Starting from the most recent event that happened which is the Virginia Tech massacre on 16 April 2007. Media in some countries created their own killer’s identity to sell their first hand news to the public and to make money. One example will be the Chicago Sun-Times journalist Michael Sneed who had wrongly identified a Chinese American and a Chinese national as the suspected shooter and the news was published even before the killer was correctly identified. Another event will be the covered up stories of Iraqi violence. CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were covered up in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau. This has again shown that media has censored some news that are unfavorable to them so that they will not be affected. The main aim of reporting news is to earn them a living and not to present the facts to the world. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) dispute over the misuse of funds has stirred up strong feelings among the Singaporeans. It is mainly due to the media exaggerating and making up the news. The media has been keeping reporting scandals of this issue and this has aroused the interest of the public to follow up on the news. It has thus increased the profits earned by the media as more newspapers were sold during this period of time. In my opinion, the media is not reliable enough now for us to believe everything that is reported. Therefore, we need to scan through a number of different sources to judge the news by ourselves. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre#Inaccurate_media_reports http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/CNNs_Iraqi_Cover-Up.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Kidney_Foundation_Singapore_scandal
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