Suspicious Minds or just being Curious?

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Unfortunately we live in an age of FAKE NEWS that is generated by one-sided and suspicious minded people who create news that has no foundation in truth. When FAKE NEWS is reported it is sometimes the cause of DOUBT in the minds of those who read it. This is why it is so very important that when any reporter tells of TRUTH in the news, he or she should follow the simple laws of honesty and integrity and factual reporting. Do you think we are living in an age where the NEWS could in fact be FAKE NEWS? or Do you think that TRUTH in the news is given a bad rap based on the fact that certain people in the news are saying that reporters make stuff up all the time? From what I heard just by talking to other people in the real world, not online, many are afraid that they do not completely believe anything they see in the local or national news on t.v. or in the news paper, and many of them are upset with all of the negative news that has been crammed down their throats lately. Some say that social media sites are the prime culprit of this new generation of false news or unsubstantiated reporting and that is no different than gossip but the fact is, social media is the next wave of word of mouth news. And if just one person spreads a lie he or she may be putting the very security of this country in danger. Social media is often used to some degree to at least start a video going viral by showing something that in and of itself is misleading or just plain outrageious or too stupid to be true, due to it only showing intermediate activity that may or may not result in a violent act that possibly results in doing some person physical harm or create an altercation that results in a liability case. For every video posted on social media or for that matter on the local or national news, remember that things might have happened before, and after that video that would completely change the story. Often times, removing or editing such a video might invalidate it or discredit it in a court of law but moreover, showing what happened after a policeman shot somebody can make it look like cold blooded murder when in fact, the part about the suspect trying to grab the officer's gun to shoot him that took place before the camera was rolling, so to speak would be telling people a lie and be misleading, it might generate hostility between people over the suspicion of the single act of a shooting. Such a video going viral or a story that is totally untrue or one-sided being posted on YouTube or Facebook can and will quite often make it necessary for everyone to spend hours searching for a variation of a story just to find out if it is a fact or a fiction and meantime the real news is missed altogether. By the time the truth is found out and a fake news story is taken down, the seeds of doubt and suspicion based on misrepresentation or leaving out some pertinent facts, are already planted deeply in the person's mind. People who first thought they were reading the truth but later find out it was all a lie have to live with the consequences of having been mislead and it leads them to be more distrusting of the source of such FAKE NEWS from then on. FAKE NEWS wherever it comes from can give a bad reputation to certain otherwise legitimate news sources and this damages the public's confidence in just about all of the news they see day after day as it is churned out like so much fast food. This can and often does, lead to people just wanting to ignore most of the news just because they are sick and tired of the sensationalism. The end result of FAKE NEWS however mundane or trivial it may seem at first glance, creates a sense of indifference and apathy toward most or all news. This is very bad thing.