If one were to turn on their television right now, and switched to a news station, would they trust the information that is given? Would one second guess the news reporter? News stations are under fire a lot for being biased. One will often hear the President of the United States, Donald Trump, make claims about how there is “fake news”. But is there some truth to that, or is it all “fake news”? It’s almost ironic. Either normal news has “fake news”, or the people that are saying there is “fake news” are fake. As the people of this country, the citizens should have an unbiased news education. Having the U.S. Government enact laws to reduce the amount of politically biased news sources, on all sides of the political spectrum, would in turn provide politically neutral education to its citizens. Fake news, from Americans’ point of view, is real. “Meanwhile, 66% currently agree that most news media do not do a good job of letting people know what
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“...many journalists actively seek to avoid implicit displays of partisanship or non-objectivity in their work” (Quackenbush 6). Many people that blame the news for providing false information also carry that to the reporters. They will say that this reporter is alt-left or alt-right because of the network they are on. “Reporters were now being labeled as left or right depending on where they worked and star anchors defined the network” (Boudreau 5:00-5:10). While the statement that journalists try to avoid being biased may be true, the reporters are not the ones in question of truthfulness. The sources themselves are what is telling the reporters to say. Most news stations have their reporters read off of a script. So the journalists do not have as much control of the content of which they are speaking. If they go too far off script, they could very well be fired because of it. “The media was becoming the enemy. And evolving technology was the game-changer” (Boudreau
“...many journalists actively seek to avoid implicit displays of partisanship or non-objectivity in their work” (Quackenbush 6). Many people that blame the news for providing false information also carry that to the reporters. They will say that this reporter is alt-left or alt-right because of the network they are on. “Reporters were now being labeled as left or right depending on where they worked and star anchors defined the network” (Boudreau 5:00-5:10). While the statement that journalists try to avoid being biased may be true, the reporters are not the ones in question of truthfulness. The sources themselves are what is telling the reporters to say. Most news stations have their reporters read off of a script. So the journalists do not have as much control of the content of which they are speaking. If they go too far off script, they could very well be fired because of it. “The media was becoming the enemy. And evolving technology was the game-changer” (Boudreau