AE #5

 The media seems to have a great effect on peoples and their lives. Every day I view the news whether it be a newspaper or t.v., they all seem to blow up the situation. If someone is gunned down, in his or her own home, the news is already speculating the possible causes and sometimes they are so far from the truth but they do not care. These assumptions or speculations that people hear causes them to pre-judge the tragedy and begin to gossip. This is what children do when they get bits and pieces of a story, they just fill in the blanks.

Sad that our news media takes on the same traits as children playing telephone. Media has gone away from fact-based stories to fabricated stories. Glorifying a bad situation is horrible and disgusting. People who have passed that are famous are no longer focused on because of their accomplishments just of their disgraces. When learning a celebrity or politician has died I do not care if he or she didn’t pay their taxes or that they had drugs on them. Their gone, and if nothing was said prior to their demise than it should be kept quiet.

           While researching books, articles, and websites for information I discovered so much it was hard to pick from. The negative far outweighs any positive news stories. The sad things is when the news reporter gets the information wrong it can destroy a person’s good name, and even if they correct the mistake it will never again be fixed.An example is that of an aunt of two kids that died in a house fire. The news portrayed her as a woman with no compassion for the two boys and could only think of her food stamps.I am almost certain that this is not the way she wanted the world to see her. Most everyone deals with a tragedy different than others. Why do they have to always make the situation seem as if these people are ignorant and selfish? I feel like this country has stepped so far away from moral and self respect that we now live in an anything goes society!