Have you ever checked Yahoo/MSN for the headlines, only to find out that what was supposed to be news really was nothing more than someone’s personal opinion on a topic from a blog?
It seems there’s hardly any real investigative journalists left in the World. With the ease of creating blogs & blogging with sites like WordPress, Blogger & Tumblr, so many people publish things and then media outlets use these stories and people take this information as factual/true.
Come to find out that this is more frequently happening and Ryan Holiday, the author of, “Trust Me, I’m Lying,” shares a bit about how the media has manipulated bogus, anonymous stories to the front-page of news media outlets.
This leads me to wonder if any of our news stories can even be trusted because the system by which news outlets pick up their stories is flawed. How many times have you read what you thought was ‘breaking news’ only to find out that it was just an old story re-packaged with a new headline so you sit there and wonder ‘why is this even in the news?’
In fact, the news may not really be the news at all.
Check next time you read a story and let us know what you think!
