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Balanced and Accurate News: Media Responsibility
The media in this country should be responsible enough to ensure that what they tell society is accurate and impartial. However, oftentimes this is not the case. There have been many accusations lately of the media providing information that is not fair and balanced, and due to this more and more people in today's society are choosing not to trust much of what the media is telling them. This is good, because society often simply seems to follow blindly based on what one person or one group says, and when this happens many people can be harmed by it. The fewer people that follow blindly along, the fewer people will be harmed in the long run, and the safer overall that society will be.
Because of the problems that society is seeing where the media is concerned, more individuals are choosing to determine whether what the media is telling them is actually accurate or not. Now that there is so much information available on the Internet and in other places, it is much easier for people to research what the media has told them. They are able to check into many different issues and determine whether what someone tells them is accurate always, sometimes, or not at all, and this helps them to make informed decisions regarding healthcare, finances, environmental issues, and many other areas of life.
When it comes to correcting the misinformation that they see, however, there is no real responsibility for this, it seems. Some people will work to correct the problems that they hear about and that they see in media reports, but most people just examine the information for themselves, determine whether it is accurate or not, and use the knowledge that they have acquired to make their own informed decisions. Beyond that, however, they do little to try to change the perceptions of the media or of other members of society that choose to believe in what the media has to tell them.
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