"Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet." taken from "Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran, pg 324.
Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.
Almost any information you read or research on the Net these days are not compelitely trustworthy, as anyone has the ability to distribute information without any authentical references. For instance, anyone could have a weblog, and s/he could write anything s/he wants on it, and who really cares that what you write on the blog is true? Who really cares what you want to project about a matter on the Net is reliable specially when this matter is somehow not related to politics and religious issues so that there is no control on it? Thus, it is not so hard to conceal the reality.
The second critical point that I think is political reasons. Since the Internet is one of the greatest way to publish and broadcast information today, it can easily lead people's mind in a way that is appropriate for a society or a political party inside a country. Therefore there is a probability to read a news in a website which is different in another site.
So it is so hard to find the reality as what it really is because you need to read several pages on the Net and spend a lot of time in front of your monitor, and what you get could be a way different from reality.
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