Over the summer I came across news quite easily, from social
networks to the media on the TV.
However the news I came across wasn't always legitimate as
some of them was just biased views towards something they strongly disagree
about like the Syrian migrant crisis and how it can damage the economy and that
ISIS members are hidden within them (something I
disagree with) which shows that the news cant exactly be reliable.
One example of News however which got my attention over the
summer was the chemical plant in china blowing up and causing mass fires in Shandong
which killed about 200 people and many
more injured or missing, I first found this piece of news from Facebook which is a social media website and at first i
was questioning its credibility so that made me look into further detail about
this and I the checked BBC news website for more information on this catastrophe
and that confirmed the source on Facebook, while looking more into this piece
of news I found out some amateur videos from a citizen of the explosion taking
place and was filmed from a hotel room only a few miles away from the explosion
radius ( Video ).
The Syrian migrant crisis has been portrayed in many
different ways over the news from what I've found over the past month as left
wing bias news (Guardian) has said these people are seeking help and its our
job to provide that compensation, on the other hand right wing papers believe
that they are damaging our society and are a greater threat than we think.
Another story I came across was the scandal between David
Cameron and a pig in oxford university in which he had to do a inappropriate
action with a dead pigs head to gain acknowledgement from his former 'friends'
at university and join this private club, the way in which I found out about
this story is through people at first then on the internet and through many
tabloid papers mocking him for a instant which he describes as being stabbed in
the back, the sources i gained this information from are trusted as it is
everywhere and published in papers.
The media I come across is commonly left winged news as I
consider myself to be left winged and majority are my friends are so, the main
source of my information comes from the Guardian newspaper which has a left
winged bias however I occasionally read BBC news which doesn't have a bias due
to it being funded by the tax payers and when looking on for the news on
websites it uses cookies which personalises information found and makes me have
news which is somewhat similar to what I always read.
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