Came across this piece of news in one of the mainstream media this morning and could not help myself feeling uneasy with it. Just cant help questioning the motive of the writer for giving such title to that piece of news. Was it purely popularistic journalism to attract readers or was there any malicious intent to malign the uniformed civil service. Why the need to put the word "uniform" in the title when in reality the case refers to former students of the co-ed school entering the school in school uniforms?
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As a creature of habit, one would generally reach for the morning papers over a cup of coffee or perhaps open up the laptop to get the news. But over times, the pleasure is no longer there because what is being churned out by the mass media could no longer lay claim to be the truth. Now, the pleasure in the morning is merely in reading the news without the serious need to comprehend because we could no longer accept what is being written as the gospel truth.
The advent of technology and the internet has further amplified the situation. All news and reports are now slanted or tainted with personal perception, views, motives and agenda only known to the writer. In the past, the general public accepted the mainstream media - be it local or international - to be partial and only writing the truth. But of late, this is no longer the case. We now come across different versions of news depending on the writers and the media with the objetive of changing perception of the people. So are news that comes from the alternative media. One would really have to scrutinize over and over again to know the real truth.
