These days, people can easily find information from various kinds of way. However, quite a lot of information in different sources is biased and sometimes it is completely incorrect. From this point, to get more precise information, wider information from different sources are essential which will help people to see different events with more objective point of view and more likely to increase the accuracy of information.
First of all, media sources generally state events with their point of view. This characteristic of media often disturbs people reading the real happenings and possibly makes them get a wrong idea. For example, Ji-sung Park who is the Manchester United football player is always praised by Korean media. This is because even though English media doesn’t illuminate him, Korean media exaggerate the events and depict him as a hero in every single game. This information affects Korean people to be brainwashed that Ji-sung Park always did very well in Manchester United which disturb them to determine what the real event happened. From this point of view, various sources should be read to determine what the situation is actually going on.
Moreover, quite a lot of news often includes incorrect or unsure information. This would sometimes affect people to get a wrong idea and they can spread it to other people. This mainly caused by speculative news from some media which leads to spread wrong information to people. For example, this speculative news is commonly found in sports. Some media just spread a wrong idea such as transferring rumor of famous football players, drug suspicions and so on. These kinds of news sometimes ruin celebrities’ lives and make people get incorrect information. If people get those kinds of particular information from other media, it would be way better to determine whether it is right or wrong.
21st century is called as an informational generation. In other word, information is power. However, inaccurate information causes negative power which may put people in confusion. To be more well-known person with accurate information, various kinds of news from various sources would definitely help people to have a right idea by reducing the possibility of errors. |