I've just read a piece of article in somebody's xanga. He said Hong Kong needs a newspaper like the Apple Daily because it has a "constructive" and "accurate" reporting.
There is no genuine complete independence in media. Media is always influenced by various parties - publishers, investors, advertisers, pressure from the government and the mass audience. Then probably no report is "accurate" or "objective" enough to tell everything happen in an incident.
Maybe we all tell the truth, but what makes different is the way we interpret it. Nobody is really wrong, otherwise we are blamed or said to commit defamation. If we want to see the truth, perhaps we have to see ourselves. Find the truth ourselves, look at all the things with our eyes; otherwise you have to consider very much the articles you are reading.
Certainly journalists get the first-hand information, yet when the audience read/watch/hear the report, it is SECOND-HAND.
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