Journalistic Sensationalism

[red750]

It's amazing how far journalists and sub-editors will strecth the facts to get a good story.

 

On the Yahoo home page there was a headline stating "Pilot dies of heart attack in mid-flight".

 

When you read the story, a pilot travelling as a passenger, as emergency backup crew, on a Russia-bound flight over China died of a heart attack. He was not in charge of the flight or even in the cockpit. The headline infers that the captain or F/O were the unfortunate victim. Sad though it may be, the flight was never endangered.

 

 

[dazza 38]

Its a real joke sometimes (most times) with the media. They never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

 

 

[willedoo]

Its a real joke sometimes (most times) with the media. They never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Sad but true Dazza. A good example recently was F** News covering the recent protests over the Russian elections, showing footage of rioting in the streets & burning buildings etc, all stuff that didn't happen.The first of many giveaways was that it was the middle of winter in Moscow, yet rioters were wearing shorts & T shirts. Then there was the Greek lettering on all the shopfronts, etc., turns out it was footage of the earlier Greek riots over financial re-structuring. I doubt the substitution of footage had any political intent, just lazy or opportunistic journalism to get ratings.

 

I think all we can do these days is to source news from lots of different sources & try to average it out to have any hope of getting anywhere near the truth.

 

Cheers, Willie.