Yes that is true but I'm having difficulty trusting who's true or not but it's up to me to believe it, right?

Wahaha what kind of question is that? The media won't show a bit of truth truth to you... It will only show _false_ truth actually. Truths that will mosaic up in your head with a false conclusion. Also, in politics and other fields it became common that facts are generated. The behind reasons and behind truth are always bigger and more nasty in the most cases, but due the people's lack for truth, they generate facts in life and afterwards they tell that this is the fact that they are the good people and trying. For example let's imageine you provoke a provokable person in a bar for months and make him attack you, then you kill him and the rest of his friends and take the money and tell that he was the part of a terror group which will be true since you have sent him agents 10 years ago to make him enter your home made terror group give him everything and help him become a leader in it, so afterwards you can hunt this agency forever and actually do wathever you want in the name of this. This is just a silly example but I think this is how things go nowadays.
The rest of the media is filled with things which are trying to look more interesting than they are actually are... Let's watch an action film. What can you learn from it for your real life? How to move like an action hero? Check. Anything else? Like how to deal with problems like an adult? No. Selfishness? Yes. Selfisness makes you buy more chocolate than you need (info: you don't need any, but it's also a "cookie" so on holidays it would be great actually) becouse it is accepted to be selfish by everyone, since if they let you than they can be selfish too. Yeah and thats great before a point. Ok nevermind. Nowaday there are enlighted action films however, which teach you that good things are good, so you can be selfish if you find a good reason for it. Yeah... well... it's acceptable sometimes... Nevermind. I only wanted to tell that it's ridiculous that Dr. House works in a hospital where every patient is a two-DNA holder or some scientific equivalent of a werewolf.

Ah, okay.

Very often happens so, that press deceive, and it in turn deceives us... But so happens only with non profesional channels ..

And in general it is better to trust nobody... It is necessary to collect the accessible facts and to do сво own conclusion... That is the person should have always the point of view

I dunno to be honest, thats why i wish i could get my own information from private sources and stuff (kinda like James Bond spy and we got our own network blah blah, people who gather info and stuff...so COOL innit!)

But yeah, i know long ago that information being broadcasted in the T.V. (basically almost anywhere...even Internet) has a high chance of being fake nowadays.

So i say? Only believe what you see with your 2 eyes...LIVE! <~Important

and of course, dont go believing anything that you hear

rijiru

'Live' can be fabricated too before the shoot. It's like making a movie. It's the 'truth' as long as no one witnesses it on the spot.

Really, please, stop commenting on what you don't know, I have worked for a short time in the media and I know, that according to state and International law, there is no such thing as a "fabricated live" event, you can't, a company is licensed to film events and take sources from people who have the sources, say CNN takes footage from CNBC or CCTV taking footage from Eurosport Sports Coverage. Everything, is seen in black and white, papers have to be signed, they have to be checked if they are looking at the correct footage, if facts and reports are accurate at "press time" meaning that at the moment it is broadcasted on TV, the info is in fact up to date. Licenses are awarded to news companies on condition that they report findings, not fabricate findings. Know the difference. Also, on the issue of censorship, it is only done so you do not know the explicit details, would you like it if I say on the News Channel, that I have pictures showcasing the National Security internal affairs? Do you realize the extended possibility of enemies using that against the government? You realize that terrorists could well plan ahead by utilizing the videos to catch or exploit holes in the system? Please, learn how to differentiate vital information and protected information, these things matter.

What? you try to fabricate news on TV? try that, I assure you, the television company, the broadcast crew will all come under fire by officials. Have you not heard of the man who claims that in China, a company has been selling and manufacturing dumplings with cardboard fillings inside?

That man is prosecuted, banned from ever hitting mediums again, and also banned from public appeal, the thing YOU are speaking of is sensationalization, which is possible but nonetheless, an unacceptable ideal for truth based events. Or, if you reported that the winner at this year's Tour Le France biking championship is on dope and can't come up with facts and actual results as well as confirmation from the dope testers as well as testify for it, your company is doomed.

You can sensationalize news, say the Tsunami, in that happening, the first 24 hours, saw news channels speaking out of their numbers , 10000 are dead, 20000 are dead, or there is a break out of new diseases due to the flood, but in the end, after numbers are corrected, reviewed, identified, bodies are tagged, and such, the process is streamlined, and rescue operations are given confirmations, the numbers came down steadily. The rumor of the disease dead and breakout also required national and international apology from fake info. Panicking people tend to give false intelligence so it is not the media's fault, but IF the media was behind the spreading of such things in order to sensationalize their news, when found, it is punishable by law.

We call this the turbulence of the event, there is NO SUCH thing as a fabricated live events, minutes before you say? Try that, tell your camera man to do that, tell your crew to do it, pretty soon you will be facing law charges and if your crew is involve, expect the officials to cast your crew into jail. There are also existent laws that you must not break in order to broadcast news and truth events, for example, scientific journals such as The American Cancer Research, must have actual academic approval, dissertation, theory, research, prove of research results and examination as well as cross-examination before annoucing their research. You should also notice that if you cite the research in a research project, say a college dissertation, you must cite the source and who is behind the writing of the citation. All this is media, all of these mediums (plural form of media), and it is true to the bone.

There is also no such event that is live and without WITNESS, did you ever seen one fire break out where the news crew was there before the people were either helping or looting the place? I don't think so, don't believe me? check yourself. If you are talking about Ripley's Believe or Not, or Guiness Book of Records, or David Blaine's magic show, of course, you can fabricate truths, NONE of these media programs are required by law to showcase 100% truths, nor do they care for the bloody law, they are all in for the ratings.

and to Naxa.
We are talking about entertainment media, of course, anyone can separate reality and TV drama, I don't think you should confuse yourself over that. Christ... learn to read.

In many cases, the media often tells of a 90% truth, CNN for example, gives extended coverage to the presidential elections, the Pope ascend to the Holy Seat, etc.

I take an example, when you last witnessed the Papalcy (Becoming pope), the event was a political skirmish among the bishops and archbishops, did neither the Italian counterparts cover the Celebrate or the Election? Yes they did, and because it concerns the Vatican and the world of the Christian faith, none of it is fabricated, it cannot be done. The same is done in the Bush Iraq War policy, when it was finally revealed there was no such thing as mass WMD produce, did the news become the first to protect George W. Bush's ass in hiding the news from the public, contary to conspiracy theories, there is no such action, the news cast was never threatened by the CIA to cover up the news, or paid by the Intelligence to cover the news.

It was all social responsibility, when you work with the media, you know.

Or, say... the Shinzo Abe, Japan's Prime Minister's reshuffling his cabinet, did it occur to you they are allowed to hide any political mistakings, or any news regarding the internal operations? Speculations were taken from on-the-field experts, political analysts, politicians, the people behind the election, the public, the truth? You want it? You got it.

I do agree there is never a hundred percent truth, but to say you can fabricate it as long as there is no witness is like saying cows can fly if nobody saw the magician pull out his magic wand to wave around his pixie dust. Duh.

I think the media is out there to report back to society whats going on in the world but whether if they are reporting the whole truth...thats up to them.

I have to disagree, the media can sometimes manufacture event like the event in Afghanistan.

What? The afghan war? ok, lets just say for 1 minute, and then now I have the question:

1. where is the Taliban?
2. What happen to the people who died in the "fabricated" war?
3. What happened to the people who did not die in the fake war?
4. Where did all the money go into then?
5. What happened to the twin towers?
6. Is there even supposed to be an Osama bin Laden? Oh I think he is fictional too.
7. What happened to all the allied troops settling there?
8. What happened with the government there?

Ooohh... scary, I can control the world by just twisting facts and turning it all upside down by saying: "The media is fake, all that you know is fake, we are in the matrix."

Don't read something and blindly believe in it. Journalists often write things for their own benefits: to stir up gossip, to make something so small and trivial seem so important, to get more exposure so that their bosses will recognise them and they get a promotion. It's how they sell their work.

Okay, so not all journalists are blatant liars, but it's all in the wording (equivocation, pespective and glossing over facts), so take it all with a pinch of salt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s7dI5MMB5U

This should show you where the mujahidin are.

No your frikin crazy!!!!!!Made about 40% of the time.

Great... you pointed me to an Al-Jazeera background coverage video of the taliban, hahahahah, what a source, guided by misguided sentiments, racist comments and anti-sematic brewery of curses from afghans and bravado americans.

All on youtube.

Good forsaken soul, learn how to use your sources, what is that gonna prove?
The media is fake? the war is fake? YOU BELIEVE in one source, without comparing, without thinking through, comparing documents.

Do you realize the numbers of documents released over the years of the war? it can fill up a national library, witnesses, soldiers came back and published their witnesses, writers who go there to write saw scenes of massacre, how about the women and children rescued from the did not happened war?

duh.

foolish.

Omnidevil

In many cases, the media often tells of a 90% truth

I am here to prove that you're wrong. Using your own words, "really, please, stop commenting on what you don't know". I don't doubt you have worked for the media but you can never be absolute. I'll use a fact as an example which I wouldn't want to mention online but people leave me without choice...
I don't know if you've heard of the fires in Greece. Many villages were burnt and more than 70 people died. Among those 70 people were some of my friends. 4 boys along with their mother. The media along with the government didn't respect the desperate father and put lies to exaggerate the situation. All they wanted was to get the attention and of course, the government didn't want to be considered at fault. It was broadcasted that the five of them died together, with their mother hugging them "begging for God to be saved". Of course, they didn't care about the people who actually knew what had trully happened, including myself. Artemida, the village I am talking about was forgoten by the government. No services, no constructions, nothing. My friends died because of the negligance from the side of the government. There was no sign of fire fighters for about 5 hours and then they died due to asphyxia, while trying to escape. My point is, that the government encourages the media to lie so that there won't be a scandal. I am talking about Greece. I have no clue of what happens to the States or other countries.

Anna/Fire

That is about the where are the Thaliban. As for the rest it is hard to say.