The media is important to society as it provides information and news to the masses of people. But, in recent times, the media is suspected of making up news to sell instead of reporting the facts or not reporting anything as there is no confirmed information. After doing some research, I found out quite a few dirty side of the media.
Firstly, it is one on the Iraq war. Fox, one of the more famous media medium, inquired that the civil war in Iraq is made up by media. I think it is not right to report such stuff without basis. Just ask the 1500 Iraqis that died, as stated in the article. It is not funny to make a joke at the expense of others, especially when human lives are involved.
Another case happens in Baghdad. The media reported a story of the six Sunni's who were burned alive last Friday in Baghdad in apparent retaliation for the deadly carbombings of the day before. This information came from a person called Jamil Hussein, who is a longtime source and a police officer. However, checks showed that there is no police officer called Jamil Hussein working there. This raise questions, is Jamil a real person? Or is he some fictional character? If he is a fictional character, then who provided the information? If he does not exist, that means the media has obviously reported those made up news made under his bogus name.
The last incident is in Japan where several media firms reported themselves for fake news.
After seeing these, I felt cheated as I always view the media as a trustworthy source of information. Now, I feel that they are not reporting the facts but making up stories to boost their income.
In conclusion, the media is not totally reliable as there are made up reports floating in them. One would have to pass accurate judgment to see what is right and what is wrong.
Sources:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/01/fox-media-civil-war/
http://clublefty.blogspot.com/2006/11/who-is-jamil-hussein-and-why-you-should.html
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1215
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Hello there my friend, I noticed that you had linked to my post at Club Lefty regarding Jamil Hussein. I thought I would give you an update about how this all turned out.
Jamil Hussein's identity as a police officer and source for A.P. has been confirmed. It seems that the misinformation in this case was from the American military and Iraqi government agencies who tried to discredit him for being the source of a shocking story of barbarism.
The military pays to plant stories in local Iraqi media to make the government and occupying forces look good. They make no effort to hide this either... they have it in their budget. So it is necessary to be wary of information from Iraq, but most of the time the American and world media are right. We have to be careful of the information being put out by the Iraqi Government and American military... and that is proven by the outcome of the Jamil Hussein controversy.
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