Media Truth

There are multiple ways to define the truth. People always ask for a lot of prying questions and in order to satisfy their curiosities, however truth can be explained by countless ways, even thousands of people may presume their own facts. Basically, truth comes from the real event happens in real life. It is probably covered by embellishment or distortion, but as time goes by, truth finally exposes to the public.

In general, truth is always inconceivable and hard to be aware of by groundless guess or interpretation. For example, when the news broadcasting a 40-year-old woman who weighed 90 kilograms ran on the treadmill for 3 hours and finally died because of a heart attack, the audience and even journalists will simply sigh that it is really unworthy to look good and skinny by health-harming ways. Nevertheless, who can image that she has a daughter who was waiting for her liver transplantation. In order to minimize the effects of her fatty liver, the woman did a lot of exercises and had lost her weight for 20 kilograms in two months. Real life is far more sophisticated than a drama, because we can see how the plot develops by acting while the reality can not be oversimplified by what we see or hear.

After the fact surfaces, the consequence is shocking all the time. In fact, truth has a certain power, which is more persuasive and lively than thousands of pushy words or graphs, triggers a deeper thinking by people. It is indeed terrible sometimes, like when the Malaysian government officially declared that the appearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 after the search since the end of June, the relatives were all hit by this cruel truth. Some people cry and some people regret, but they all finally free after knowing the facts. Although sometimes people tell a white lie for kindness, truth can calm us down and bring us with relief in the long term.

Media makes a living by blowing the whistle to society. Though the truth may be beautiful or terrible, journalists must keep their eyes open and distinguish the black and white. “The media's job is to serve as society's referee, throwing down truth flags when uninformed bigots are shouting their opinions into the wind.” Journalists need to know that every words they say is more powerful than others, therefore the news workers are more accountable for every presumptions they suppose as well as every comments they share. Though the industry competition creates considerable stresses, keeping the news reliable and undecorated is more important than sensationalism, since the public opinion may kill a man or causes incredible strain to related person, especially in the age of network.