News Reporting: The Whole Story

In Alma Guillermoprieto's text "Telling the Story, Telling the Truth" she discusses her techniques and tendencies for reporting the news throughout the years. One of the most interesting things she said was her take on news addiction. She described it as "an ethical desire to participate as a citizen of the world community." She also said "Hard news doesn't give us the knowledge or ability to do that." This provoked my thoughts about how news is reported. Hard news that we often watch on CNN or Fox is reported using hard facts to an extent. They choose to report the facts that they want to support their beliefs and sway the thoughts of the general population. Because most people will watch the news and take it for what its worth, but very few will investigate what the news said and try to uncover the whole truth, not just the perspective of one or two news channels. She claims that she is a reporter who wants to reveal the whole story by not just revealing her own opinions and facts but she reads numerous amounts of material from other authors on the subject so that she can support what she said by previous writers. Similar to writing an essay you have to support what you write with other references because this strengthens your claims. I don't like how she rambled on about her own personal strategies in news reporting in general. She talked about how/why she liked to put her "opinions" into her reports and use "personal pronouns." I feel like everybody has different strategies and telling the readers how you write is not interesting, at least to me it's not. Overall, I think her text had some good information and was thought provoking in the topic of news and how much of it you should take with a grain of salt.