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There has been a debate among many people whether we can trust the coverage by the news media and it is usually objective on problems. Although it is true that the many reporters are trying to find out truth and provide people with reliable information, I believe we need to consider what is true carefully when we read newspaper before, which means some media are not trustworthy. In this essay, I give two reasons supporting my idea.
To begin with, the media corporations tend to give some information favor of certain person or companies. We can see several media companies owned by private and they keep very close relationship with other companies in different sector. If the news media were related to specific people, how they can be willing to make news that make them angry and unsatisfied. For instances, I read newspaper published by ‘A’ media managed by ‘B’ large corporation which have also ‘C’ electronic company. There were severe accidents that employees who work for ‘C’ electronic company died because of poor and hazardous environment. Every newspaper wrote about these accidents and tried to encourage people to know the reality of accidents and the reason why they died. However, each newspaper published by ‘A’ media explains this issue from the side of ‘C’ company even if it is clear many worker had died because ‘C’company did not pay attention to their workers` health. Regarding this event, we can see it is difficult for the media corporation keeps objective viewpoint on issue related to its interest.
On top of that, the news media tend to do anything they can to induce people to read their articles. There is a lot of information on newspaper. They are very helpful when we live today, but we can see things on newspaper exaggerated, distorted and even faked. The problem is the newspaper are willing to write that kinds of things if they can draw people. From my experience, I had read about living information on newspaper. That article had it that if you ingest lots of snacks on the shelves in supermarket, you could be blind. I was very scared that snacks can make me blind. But, in fact, it was some kind of exaggerating information. It is true some ingredients in snacks have a few possibilities that harm people`s eye but they never let people become blind. The newspaper want people to read their article by showing them very distinct title and context. Although they apologized that article which they intend to write in the wrong way, they certainly are willing to write some news that has purposes to deceive people.
To sum up, it is evident the news media that are possessed by certain people or have close relationship with some companies are impossible to keep neutral posture on issues concerned and they are likely to write some face articles to attract more people. Therefore I truly believe the newspaper cannot play a very important role in providing trustworthy information.
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