What's Wrong With The World Today? - Lying, Conniving Journalists

     As someone with a background in Journalism, I would like to think that journalists do their job and report and inform the public in an objective and honest nature ... But this past week, I was disheartened when an entire publication ended a 168-year run after their reporters were caught in a phone hacking scandal. Granted it was a tabloid newspaper, but either way, journalists should hold themselves to higher standards than that.
     Despite having had past problems with phone hacking, News of the World, a British tabloid newspaper, printed its last edition this past Sunday after further allegations were made that reporters hacked into the voicemail of a murdered middle school student named Milly Dowler who was killed in 2002.

     I am absolutely disgusted by actions of the journalists allegedly involved in the hacking of that girl's phone. What did they think they were going to get out of that? Did they lose all sight of their ethics?

     As a journalist, occasionally there are times when things may not seem absolutely black and white, there may be gray areas when you are not sure what to do - but this? Hacking voice mails of a murdered child? This was not one of those times. This was a time when you should stand back a say "No, this is absolutely unethical ... and illegal."

     The fact that there are actually journalists out there who would actually consider this to get their story is appalling.
     And that's what's wrong with the world today.

Look at the pictures taken by the cameras, they cannot lie. The truth is in what you see, not what you read. Little men tapping things out, points of view - remember their views are not the gospel truth. Don't believe it all. Find out for yourself. Check before you spread. News of the world. (News of the World, The Jam)