ARGUMENTATIVE: "NEWS INFORMATION OR MANIPULATION" FINAL DRAFT

“News Information or Manipulation”


Do you think that all the news by television, newspapers or internet is completely true? Long time ago, we have been manipulated by TV news in newspapers or by internet, some of them are true, but most of the times the real content of each new is exaggerated in order to change it purpose. The reasons can be various like government manipulation (for hiding economic or serious social problems in a country). According to this media takes advantage of that for keeping a high ratting publishing and transmitting lies. For this reason, it is important to have an objective view about the events that are happening around the world.

The impact of some news is something that undoubtedly disturbs the pace of a place or a person. Nowadays is very common that TV news, newspapers or the internet manipulated the information in order to everybody attends about their TV programs or buy the newspapers. This is something that should be considered and illegal practice of Journalism, because everybody has like unique source of information the TV news, newspapers which modify information according to their interests increasing stress and creating panic by using in negative way the new information.

Another aspect that media are practicing is the concealing of information; sometimes the objective is to hide serious economic operations by the government, in other situations the importance and seriousness of the social problems can not be published in any way. This is something very serious because we as citizens have the right of be well informed. According Newsweek magazine 45% of newspapers around the world edit their information until 60% and we as readers of these newspapers only know 40% of the truth. According to the global warming foundation (2001), news about this serious problem of the planet is the main new that TV news and newspapers do not publish for avoiding panic in the world, this information is useless because, if they really practicing the real Journalism, they must feel the obligation of publishing the true in this way everybody would take a position about the problem.

Concerning the way that the media publish the information are also manipulated, because sometimes it is impossible to hide certain information and the TV news and mainly newspapers tone down or change the name to big problems, in this way the society accept the events without comments or like something very normal when really is something serious. This kind of manipulation is the most common nowadays, because now everybody has access to all type of information through means of communication which hide sometimes horrible things with a soft or nice new name. According to the New York Times (May, 2009) Mexico is one of the countries around the world, where the practice of Journalism on well known and famous sources of information are the worst, the New York times denominated this as apart of legality, because this is not real information and the Journalism is the best way for concealing illegal acts.

As a conclusion, it is important to take into consideration, that probably all the things that are happening around the world are obviously true but the impact, the importance and seriousness of each one can be received for the people according the means of communication that they see or read. Not is good to generalize about media, but nowadays manipulation of information is something that TV news, newspapers or web pages considerate like a good business even more profitable than gains that they receive for advertising.