"High Levels of Media Inaccurancies." Daily Source. 11 Nov. 2009. www.dailysource.org/about/problems
There are high levels of inaccuracies in news media whether it is internet news or newspaper.
Public confidence in the media is low and it continues to go down. A poll by USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup found only 36% of Americans believe news organizations get the facts straight, compared with 54% in mid 1989. And according to an in depth study by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1999, 23% of the public find factual errors in the news stories of their daily paper at least once a week while more than a third of the public, 35% see spelling or grammar mistakes in their newspaper more than once a week. The study also found that 73% of adults in America have become more skeptical about the accuracy of their news.
Wow, if this article I found is really correct, I feel sad that the news that we are supposed to be dependent on accuracy is actually not accurate. But who knows as this article suggest, this article itself is very uncorrected. It will be very ironic. Personally, unlike the people perticipated in the survey, I feel confident about the news I get. Also, I never recognize any spelling or grammer errors (maybe because I ONLY read Korean news -_-;;) and even if I would find some errors, I won't care about it much because spelling or grammar errors does not mean that the information is incorrect.
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I disagree with your point Michael because it takes time to get facts straight. News stations are more focused on getting news out to people as soon as they hear about. There are some flaws with this because stories tend to change, but that doesn't mean that the news is lying to us.
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