Journalism and Reporters

The seas will rise by 50 meters, he can get a 20 year sentence, Diana may have been killed, My father was an alien.

These kinds of headlines, apart from that last checkout rag one, are becoming more and more common. As news watchers we are getting less and less actual news, a smaller number of stories and less and less information upon which to make any kind of reasoned opinion.

The process of journalism or the recording and presenting of facts and information has been replaced my marketing and the opinions of those who read the news or the magnates behind the talking heads.

News and reporting, for the most part, has become entertainment. In the examples above the missing information would be "as predicted by one climate modelling program," "that is the maximum rarely if ever applied," "or so one man wishes to be accepted in English society," and well that one might be possible in an alternate universe.

The result is individuals who are being pushed in a certain direction by a minority of people. Instead of getting the facts and making up our own minds we get only what others want us to get so the conclusions are forced.

You can do the research on your own and trace down the real facts but how many people actually do that, only a tiny percentage of the whole. The result is a pre-programmed society that believe what special interest groups want you to believe be it the number of deaths in Iraq or the effects of man made CO2 or which person is best to vote for in the next election.