Thursday, December 8, 2011

Journalism as Warmonger

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When reading articles in newspapers the editors must make sure the information is vaild and not a story that was created only by imagination that the writer has made up. When reading the fifth chapter about Journalism as Warmonger it speaks about theYellow Journalism that was created by Joseph Pulitzer who was going up against William Randolph Hearst in giving out newspapers first that will catch the readers attention. This is what lead to the Spanish-American War about making up stories in the articles that was being service to the people who read the stories that the citizens actually thought it was true. Little did the people know that the stories was only made up into beliving that what was being put into the Yellow Journalism were false stories only being printed to make sales against the other journalist. 

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 When you think of today news through the mass media I othen wonder about the information that is being giving to me if its actually telling the full true story of what is being put out there. Normally when listening to the news we tend to go by what is being told to us and going off of the story that's been given to us, yet when you start to investigate the story to find out what spark the cause its much deeper then what is being put out there. That's why I feel its very important for us to not only look for information in only one source, but also that we can receive the information from different sources that we do know what is liable.

2 comments:

  1. That is why journalists are held accountable for telling the truth under libel. However as we learned earlier in the year there is always embedded journalism in which the journalists are paid to write what the corporations want them to write. It is ridiculous!!!

    Good post Michelle!

    Kelly Kant

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  2. i agree, now whe do not know if we are getting the full story or not.

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