The Lying Media

Darren seems to have started a personal campaign against/for the mass media asking them to clean up what they are reporting. He has a point . . .

When I attended University of Queensland one of the majors that I was studying for was journalism. I managed to get through the first semester before changing subjects because I was so disgusted with the way that stories could be edited to be sensationalist rather than just conveying the facts – and it had nothing to do with the words you added, it had all to do with the facts that you omitted.

Television is time limited, and the newspaper is space limited so they need to trim the material down to make it fit, but the way you trim it down has a big impact on the way the audience consumes the material. Roy Osherove’s blog post about the Pallywood video is certainly thought provoking.