I Like My News Unfiltered and Undiluted
firstcenturychristian
In today’s news, I read that the Association of State and Territorial Health Offices has stated that the U. S. has dodged the bullet concerning Swine Flu. A month ago, a person listening to the news or read a newspaper or magazine would have concluded that we were in the midst of a deadly pandemic that would leave a massive number of deaths in its wake.
What is it about government agencies and our media that drives them to take a small to mid-size problem and create out of it a looming major catastrophe? It happens almost daily. The method seems to be, "always go with the worst case scenario."
True, fear and panic do generate larger audiences and readership and provoke a reaction. But there is the other side of this coin. Because I have observed the media hyping news stories so often, I am skeptical of anything they report. I take nothing I read in the daily papers or hear on the evening news as a certain fact until I can confirm it from other sources. This loss of confidence could cause a major disaster and loss of life and property should some real catastrophe come upon us. Doubting the news sources, multitudes would be in no rush to take precautions.
Newspapers and magazines are dying. Part of the blame can be laid on themselves. Tell us the truth. Tell it without enhancement. Tell us without running it through your political filter. Tell us about things that are really important to our daily life (more than sports and advertisement). Tell us things that are good, helpful and encouraging as well as those about blood and gore, doom and gloom
Article submitted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 & read 15 times.
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