Log #1

I swipe my Facebook once and I see lot pieces of news on my pages, for example, who commits suicide, who sets fire or who has love affair with whom. Nowadays, Medias transfer messages to us through different ways. Newspaper, TV news and all kinds of fanpages on our social networking system invade into our life so much and we gradually lose our ability to recognize true and fake information.

Media in Taiwan tends to exaggerate the title of a piece of news to gain attention. “Millions of people were shock”, “He said a word that brought tears to the world” are both common sentences to see on our news. After reading the content, we always find that there is nothing so special in it. Besides, sometimes we even feel being cheated by the title.

 Once I saw a piece of news on Facebook titled “Such a cruel man. He abused a dog to death.” a picture of a poor dirty dog was added. Thousands of comments were scolding the man of killing the dog; many of them even found out the Facebook account of the man and asked everyone to blame him on his own page. I was wondering how serious the thing went and curiously clicked the news. I was extremely surprised to see that it was just a video clip about a man playing with a dog and the dog wasn’t seem to be uncomfortable. Thus, for those who commented below criticizing the man must be one who actually didn’t read the content of the news. I was amazed at how people get effective easily by others words and unclear information.

What I think Media should do is giving us correct and precise information, telling us more about international situation and country development and policy. Taiwanese medias should be shameful for having so many teachers keep telling us it is useless, meaningless and time-wasting to follow Taiwanese news.