Journalistic Integrity

Journalistic Integrity

While reading about how the journalists in Libya were reporting their news, I realized how easy it is too be fooled by the media. Many of the reporters were simply reporting rumors! "The pack circled again, pens poised, taking down details that were now tenth-hand" (153). Don't the reporters care that the information they are getting could be completely false? How are we supposed to believe anything that we read in the newspaper, now knowing that it could be the busboy's opinion on something he never even considered before that moment? The duty of a journalist is to report the news fairly and truthfully. However, all these journalists are one step above making up their stories. It scares me to think that we don't know virtually anything about the world around us because we have no idea if the information we are fed has any truth in it. This reminds me of some of George Orwell's novels, and most of the Middle East in general, where newspapers blatantly publish lies on their covers. How do we know that this is not happening right here in the United States? *gr*