There are different opinions about wheter we can trust the news media. Some people say that we should the news media is reliable because the advent of internet helped news to be delivered to people more quickly. However, I strongly believe that the news is not creditable because news companies are making news in order to follow their own profit and there are too many sources of the news that are not reliable.
First, the news company's goal is to make profit. They are writting tousands of news because they are company that are operating to make money. They sometimes exaggerate the fact and even write false news so that people might have more interest on their news. For example, about 3 years ago in South Korea, there was a rumor that a famous actor suddenly died because of the car accident. It was just a rumor and we did not knew that rumor existed. However, one of the major news companies reported the news without varifying the rumor. This news company reported false rumor without varifying because they wanted to make profit by delivering shocking news to people.
Second, too many sources of the news make us hard to verify which news is telling the truth. In today's world, there are tousands of news flooding on the internet. However, these tons of news are not telling the truth all the time because the characteristic of the internet news is that there is no specific source of the news. To be specific, I like to spend time reading the news posted oline when I have free time. Oftentimes, whenever I see a interesting news that stimulates my curiosity, there was no specific source of the intormation. Therefore, I could not find whether those information was telling the truth.
In conclusion, it is hard to believe the news media since news companies's first goal is to make money .In addition, there are too abundant sources of the news so that we cannot tell which one is telling the truth. |