Wanna see something ridiculous? Look up various world news sights and watch a variety of news networks and see what there top stories are. Most certainly they will be all different. In saying that, aren't news services all supposed to be fair and balanced. So it is a good thing for us to have access to these news services but we soon enough see a pattern. We soon discover that news services begin to serve an agenda. Take Fox News for example. Their slogan is "fair and balanced." Is that a joke? I could list off plenty of examples that their right wing agenda
Why is it that these days because there is so much information out there we have to question everything we hear.There are two sides to every story that we rarely hear. We cant just listen to the news and accept it. Westacott (2012) writes about fox news and the etiquette of the news. Its interesting there case on the watchdog and the responsibility of the news.
References: Westacott, Emrys (2012). The Virtues of Our Vices. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 143.
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