Have you ever wondered whether the news we listen to is accurate or not? Well, I have and so do millions of listeners out there. The reason is that most of us would rather spend our time doing something that we love. Since the news media are doing all the work, we would think that it is unnecessary for us to contribute more work to it unless it is our job. In this video, Jon Steward was trying to let the audiences know that critical thinking is very important, especially the information that came from CNN. According to this video, CNN only provided to its viewers twenty five to seventy percent of accurate information. Therefore, it is our duty to check for the facts. We cannot rely on the assumptions provided from the news media. We must take a second step by using our critical thinking as a way to check for the facts.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Question of Fact
Have you ever wondered whether the news we listen to is accurate or not? Well, I have and so do millions of listeners out there. The reason is that most of us would rather spend our time doing something that we love. Since the news media are doing all the work, we would think that it is unnecessary for us to contribute more work to it unless it is our job. In this video, Jon Steward was trying to let the audiences know that critical thinking is very important, especially the information that came from CNN. According to this video, CNN only provided to its viewers twenty five to seventy percent of accurate information. Therefore, it is our duty to check for the facts. We cannot rely on the assumptions provided from the news media. We must take a second step by using our critical thinking as a way to check for the facts.
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That is a really good point that we rely on other people to do all the work just because it is their job, we should also be proactive in making sure that the information we know is accurate.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good point on that a lot of people just assume that since getting the news is their job, that they would do a competent job of it. I think everybody expects that kind of professionalism from a person in that specific trade. It just is very sad that we cannot trust the media with fact checking the sources and information they give us. It is important that we use our critical thinking skills, but don't you think that the media should be held somewhat responsible as well?
ReplyDeleteFor CNN viewers watching this clip of Jon Stewart would let them know how innacurate and uniformed the reporters really are about issues. So while these news are wrong or not fully correct theres also shows like Jons Stewarts to mock them. I guess its no rule that media has to be a certain way(totally accurate) for example the millions of commercials out there that lie so consumers will buy there advertised product, same thing with the news the difference is that when it comes to important issues it should not be tolerated. I guess this is the reason why some news viewers decide on certain channels to watch their news. They can have a choice!
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point on how we shouldn't depend on the media for news, but we should look up the information ourselves in order to fully understand what is going on. Also, yes their analysis is off, which insures us that the media is only giving what the audience wants, not the true facts. What would you suggest to the audience to do when facing this problem of unreliable sources and data?
ReplyDeleteQuestion, are we not relying on the facts of Jon Stewart? You wrote that he states that CNN "only provided to its viewers twenty five to seventy percent of accurate information." Although this may be true, how do we know? There are two perspectives on this particular topic. The first is to take everything that Stewart states to be truth and therefore we are listening to a comedian for the facts. Or we could take him for what he is and that is a comedian. This means that whether or not he was telling the truth does not matter, the only thing that matters are the laughs.
ReplyDeleteI want to point out that 95% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
ReplyDeleteJoshua--Stewart was being sarcastic!
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