Does the Media in general you think Report News or fabricate it these days?

B.

They exaggerate and sometimes make news on rumors that aren´t proved.

I think "distort it" would be the best term.

I always think it's funny when people talk about how bad one side of news is, FOX for instance, and then get their news from a side just as biased or worse on the other side, MSNBC for instance. If you want the real story, listen to both sides and do your own research.

If you only knew.

Beata

I wouldn't say it's completely fabricated, but it does tend to be biased, especially the major news networks

*Yawn*

True lol very true.

I've had a few friends or people in the past tell me "this is fact cause MSNBC or CNN say so" ABC, Fox whoever. I'm just like...really? lol

That's why we listen to PBS.

They dont fabricate. They sensationalize.

The media is skewed.

It presents everything within a predetermined political context to please their/our political/corporate masters. It emphasizes certain things and ignores others in nearly every story with the goal being continued manipulation of the public and promotion of their/our bosses agendas.

Agreed.

Distort.

Yeah they do. They only cover what they want to cover, use misleading headlines, bias on God tier levels, fearmonger and brainwash. It's basically propaganda.

If you want to see for yourself, watch MSNBC, Fox News, RT, Al Jazeera and others. Compare them and you will see they all have their own agendas.

Ha, Bob Ross for the win!

There's no such thing as completely accurate reporting. It's literally impossible.

The media definitely shapes the news according to their agenda. Whether it's Fox news on the right or Msnbc on the left. Local news stations do a pretty decent job of reporting the news, but the big 24/7 news channels create a narrative.

@squares: Oh I think it's possible just difficult, especially these days when a lot of reporters are often biased.

@fallingcliffs: No, it is literally impossible to be 100% accurate in reporting. People are unable to observe and relay information without said information being effected by one's own perception of events, which never depicts the subject matter entirely accurately, ergo a reporter can never give a truly unbiased and accurate report.

In the literal sense, everything in impossible as in nobody is perfect. Of course, but I'm speaking from a more "doing your job well and fairly" perspective. It's not impossible. The way it used to be the media did a lot better job than now. There's always updates, mistakes when reporting etc but I'm talking more along the lines of people putting a twist on a story that's already developed. There's reporting a news story and just writing about it, then there's reporters who have to put in their two cents or flat out lie about something that's not even accurate because it servers their needs or what "they think" people want to hear.

So there I agree, however I disagree concerning the unbiased part. Look at Superman, sure he's fictional but there have been reporters like that that just go to their job, report the news as oppose to speculate or distort things as some others said in here.

@fallingcliffs: Superman is totally biased.

@squares: Most of the time Clark isn't biased...not in the sense I'm talking. If anything Lois is way more biased than Clark, Clark always tries his best to please and be fair to everyone not just one side. People tried making that claim about "him being pro USA" yet he protects the entire world, which kind of kills that theory. He preaches "I fight for Truth, Justice and the American way" because he was raised in Kansas....

He's not even human yet feels the need to protect humanity, when he could easily just do what he wants.

Hell, he even keeps aliens that lost their homes or don't have any in his Earth home the FOS. All in the same matter, so I don't see how he's biased. Especially Superman of all heroes. Other heroes I'd agree depending who it is, but guys like him, Hal Jordan are least of all given their responsibility to Earth and beyond.

N52 they made Superman more edgy however, but the core character tries to be as fair as possible.

In Serbia the only thing they want is money. So most of the time media in my country is exaggarating and twisting the truth.

@fallingcliffs: Ah, ok.

@batwatch: preach

It's all good though lol I see what you mean thanks for posting Squares girl :). I just love Superman a lot he just seems so different compared to most heroes and vigilantes he seems to try to always do the right thing compared to I dont know maybe someone like Ghost Rider or Batman who may be not as nice, know what I mean? :P But thanks for posting!

B.

@lordraiden: Nice vid.

The media doesn't fabricate most of the time, but they do exaggerate

It's illegal to fabricate news in my country (as in, register a television channel here under the guise of being a "news outlet"). This is why Fox News failed to open a sister channel here a few years back. It was really funny at the time since they basically were outed for fabricating news, but this information was met with the usual outcry. Which is to say, none at all.

Key words: "Alleged", "Seems", "Unconfirmed" and my personal favourite, "Local residents claim." Use those and you can get away with saying anything.

BBC for the win.

Where do you reside?

@nickthedevil: Canada. Weird, eh?

On the contrary, Canada seems to be the only sane place these days.