What the Heck is true? (Caught in Lies)

As a teenager I often find myself browsing the internet and usually asking myself questions like, "is that true?" or "is this just click bait?". I think a lot of the times articles can be extremely exaggerated or fabricated to make them look more interesting than they actually are, to catch the attention of potential readers.

I was not surprised to find out that professional journalist have fabricated news. I think journalist fabricate news and exaggerate the truth simply because it makes their article much more interesting which will attract more attention to their article and it makes people actually want to read it. I think that journalist feel like they need to exaggerate the truth because some people may not find the truth interesting enough. I think Janet Cooke should not have made that false article about the child being abused but in reality that does happen all over the world. I think that Shawna Richer and Jaime Irving were completely in the wrong because their article was very disrespectful towards the prime minister of the country and it made a lot of people hate him.

"Most liars make things up for the simple reason that they don't have the talent or the ability to get the story any other way." - Jack Shafer. 

I agree with Shafer in this statement because if you need to lie or exaggerate the truth to make an article you are not a very good journalist. I also think that if journalist had the ability and thought that they could get the story and make it interesting without telling a lie or fabricating the truth they would. A Journalist that lies to draw attention to their article isn't a well known Journalist for good reasons.

I feel that universities and colleges should be doing a better job at graduating journalism students who can handle the pressure and responsibility's. If they are not prepared and cannot handle the pressure they will not be successful journalist and they should have been advised to look into another profession.

I think that an ombudsman would be great. They could address complaints and concerns sent in from readers without being bias and taking sides, they also wouldn't take any of the complaints of concerns personal because they are the middle man and are not connected to the source of the story. I think this would better improve news articles.