The headlines say matters not show in your articles. It is a growing phenomenon that responds to the needs of society as a disease of a market economy. Regulations can not stop these practices and the effects are devastating.
Level of falsehod and misrepresentation in popular media and infact pseudoscientific media is fairly high in most countries even if often inconsequential. It is extremely wrong when two people are asked both reply in the positive or negative and the media reports a 100% result in the direction that is most newsworthy.
Unless all media is forced to provide the number of people in a survey , or generally size of the sample falsehood and misrepresenation will be with us.
For sure, the percentage of falsehoods is very high. Some persons think that they are above criticism so the media has just to praise them. In many occasions, the speeches, delivered by managements of different sorts, talk about achievements only.
When a radio station phones a manager of , say a hospital, asking about the conditions of the hospital, don't be surprised to hear him/her saying "excellent".
Had the situation ,as depicted by the media, been super , then there is injustice of not adding us to the G8 countries !
Level of falsehod and misrepresentation in popular media and infact pseudoscientific media is fairly high in most countries even if often inconsequential. It is extremely wrong when two people are asked both reply in the positive or negative and the media reports a 100% result in the direction that is most newsworthy.
Unless all media is forced to provide the number of people in a survey , or generally size of the sample falsehood and misrepresenation will be with us.
Dear Solfa,
The level of Falsehood and Misrepresentation infact in news paper, television in India is almost 50 percent. They inflate what is need to be deflate, they deflate what is need to be accurate. These are also depends on money. Power palys vitally in India media.
- It varies from media to media, some print agency to increase their sale gives 75% color to the fact
Since the print media are not subjected to much peer review as practiced in research and scholarly publications, tendencies are that they be influenced. As such, falsehood is sweet-quoted and popularized.
Yes, in the print media awares many false information even falsehoods, especially in the so-called yellow press, however, I do not know what percentage .
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