Feb25

Yellow Journalism

Posted on February 25, 2012 by fiercebuddhist

network news
yellow journalism
court approved

The writing prompt for today is “yellow” I decided to write this senryu using the definition of yellow as follows:

dishonest in editorial comment and the presentation of news, especially in sacrificing truth for sensationalism:

Beware of what you see and even more of what you are told.

I hope that you , my dear readers, will question the veracity of what you see and/or read in the news. Verify the source and try and get primary data to interpret for yourself and make up your own mind.

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randalldeanscott on February 26, 2012 at 13:55 said:

Amen, good sir. Amen.

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- fiercebuddhist on February 26, 2012 at 16:11 said:
  
  Thank you. I feel like some days I am preaching to the choir. 🙂
  
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  - randalldeanscott on February 26, 2012 at 16:25 said:
    
    Eh, I dropped out of choir in my senior year. SAFE! 😛
    
    (Very bad joke and just wanted to disclose that I do realize that it’s just an expression.)
  - fiercebuddhist on February 26, 2012 at 20:59 said:
    
    LOL no problem my friend. I figured you knew.
Ben Naga on March 6, 2012 at 08:24 said:

There are two levels of danger in what passes for popular “journalism”. The first or more obvious is that you are being told what to think. As you correctly say, we can note this, reflect and come to our own conclusion. The second level is more insidious and thus perhaps even more dangerous. We are being presented with a topic to think about which as a consequence prevents us using the time to use our mind more constructively.

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