Journalists Losing Critical Thought?

Cody Barger

I believe that the public as well as reports are both becoming more and more gullible as time goes by. If reporters get wind of a big story that they think other news sources will cover as well they go in guns blazing trying to get any information they can without proper prep time or research before. This is also the case with the majority of the public now too I believe. We as the audience are too quick to read a story and believe it word for word before researching it at all. We are in the mindset of, "oh, all these news sources are talking about it surely they know what they're doing and talking about." We get so brain dead sometimes that we never stop to actually use critical thought on issues or news. We as a society want information and we want it now, at all costs. It does not matter how we get it we just need a little scoop of what may be happening. This idea of needing constant information before people can correctly and professionally expel it is hurting us as a people and reports alike.