Reply to La'dawn Fleming's review: Newspapers

Did you mean defiantly or did you mean definitely? Regardless, you are correct in the fact that it takes a lot of effort to decipher true statements. Even more so determining if the story or report itself is over-embellished, biased and/or exaggerated.   Due to several press industries shutting down and the increase in conglomerate corporations that are controlling some of the major press industries left, rises a big concern. (E.g. News Corp., with a revenue of $28.65 billion in 2007, contains "New York Post" "Wall Street Journal" "Ottaway Newspapers"{containing 27 local newspapers}etc.)  A dramatic increase of cities containing only one press source creates a lack of competition between individual stories and double coverage of the same stories with opposing reports in different perspectives.  It is this competition that promoted and incoherently enforced this image of credibility in the first place.  The bottom line is this.  It is your responsibility as a literate media consumer to interpret, understand, and question all alleged articles you analyze. On the other hand,  as for Internet newsgroups, save the traditional press industries extending their service online in order to attract and keep their readers, their credibility should indeed be severely challenged and investigated.