Why Do People Say Don't Believe This Or That Paper Without Checking The Facts First?

Question

I was not at all impressed with your remark about the SUN newspaper, surely it does not matter what paper you get info from but how you assess the info and how you cross-check to see if it is true or not.

It sounds rather childish to me if someone can make a blanket statement (usually hearsay) without proper referencing.

Surely sir this will trouble you a bit? It certainly will trouble me and I will feel a bit cavalier.

Answer 1

Anyone who says this does so with good cause.  Some 90% of our national press is extremely politically biased, and manipulates news - or what it treats as news - in a shameful fashion.

The lower the level of education and awareness of the target audience, the more extreme and crude the manipulation.  

Why does this happen?  Take a look at who owns the media!

Even at the most upright end of our media, in my view the BBC and the Independent, too much questionable reporting and more questionable analysis is printed/broadcast - or significantly omitted - to make them safely readable/viewable without a healthy dose of scepticism.

Answer 2

People make comments based on their experiences.  The Sun were very obusive to Liverpool fans after Hillsborough and many people haven't forgiven the Sun for that.  their comments then were totally fabricated and had no evidence or justification whatsoever.  I wouldn't call that childish to react like that.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter what newspaper you read or what media TV source you use. You have to remember that there are certain people who are set in their ways, who look down their noses from their ivory towers at all those who dare to read any other newspaper than their own. I call them Elitist expletives, who do not deserve my respect as they have shown me none.

Answer 4

News can be reported in many papers, on here they sl@g you off unless its in a link from The Times!

Answer 5

Anyone who believes the SUN is a newspaper in the strict sense is seriously deluded. Also, to assume that its readers should cross check is frankly laughable. The SUN like many of the other Murdoch titles are a threat to democracy and when ever they print a false or misleading stories should be forced to pay a large sum to charity - just like the Express and Star after the the Mc Cann lies.

Answer 6

There are many people on here who will use any press publication that sides with their argument, then at a later date will condemn that same publication when it is used in an argument against them.

Lack of conviction of their beliefs and a tendancy to not want to hear the truth are generally the reasons for this flighty behaviour

Answer 7

Newspapers don't just lie when they are writing about the government I assure you.

When my friend came home for Christmas a few years ago his ship was taken over by another experienced Captain, unfortunately his ship went down with all hands in the Arctic circle.

A newspaper of the time decided to state that the radar and radio where not working and the ship was not safe.

This newspaper would not print a statement from my friend as they just wanted sensationalism, never take for fact anything a newspaper prints, I think the law suits speak for themselves.