Wednesday 29 August 2012

Journalism

Have you ever noticed how downhill Journalism has gone?

From station to station, paper to paper. The media. From airing part of the story, to hiring biased bigoted journalists to even airing unimportant stories before those important ones. The list goes on and on.

I still want to study journalism though in the hopes of righting it, and telling people the truth. Like the music industry, the journalist one is corrupt too. Most only care about sales or viewers, which leads back to money, which is a problematic thing.They'll choose what to air, and when to air which leads me to my next point.

Some stations will be very pro-whatever, so most of the time they'll choose to only show one side of the story, or even interview those that they choose, rather than getting the story from both sides.

Or another thing even, most will choose what to air and when to air. 

Por ejemplo: 6 pm news begins. First headline of the evening: ONE DIRECTION IS IN AUSTRALIA!!!!111 NO. No one cares. Meanwhile a news story about dying kids in Afghanistan, or even a car accident in NSW will be shown at around 6:15 - 6:30/ I guarantee you. MOST would have turned their TVs off by then, which shows that some news stations need to get their priorities straight. 

Or let's take a newspaper example. The Daily Telegraph or whatever paper it was showed an article on Syria on page 35 while front page news was... The Shire. THE SHIRE. Really, Australia, really?

There are probably many more flaws within this industry. I just can't think of them.

This picture pretty much sums this post up:



If you want an unbiased news source, I highly recommend SBS, Russia Today or Al-Jazeera (English). 

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