"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read it, you are misinformed."

You may have encountered this qoute from Mark Twain or heared it from Denzel Washington.

This a little bit confusing to some but what you think you should do as an individual? You can comment down below.

To my personal experience, social media such as facebook really disseminates fake news, a lot! One of the reasons i deactivated mine. As what Denzel said on an interview, "What is the long term effect of too much information? One of the effects is the need to be first, and not to be true anymore". This is true to me. Let me give you an example. Let's go back to the year, April 15, 1912 the morning after if not, one of the most famous maritime disaster in history. The sinking of RMS Titanic. Newspaper headlines around the world were written as such: "Titanic Singking; No Lives Lost" (The World). "All Saved From Titanic After Collision" (The Evening Sun). "The Titanic Singking, But Probably No Lives Lost" (The Vancouver Daily Province). Only The New York Times hit close to the truth with a headline that reads: “Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing.” 

The question is, how could so many newspapers get it so wrong? Turns out that during the course of wireless chatter someone asked: “Are the Titanic passengers safe?” An answer came: “The ship is being towed to Halifax and everyone is ok.” Well guess what, the second transmission didn’t refer to the Titanic. You read it right. But when reporters got wind of the story, many of them called folks along the Canadian coast to corroborate details. And that's how you spread misinformation like a wild fire.

I won't make this more detailed but you get the point. And there's a lot of examples out there. Media companies are in the hurry to give you or print out news with a lacking information and truth. It doesn't matter to them as long as you buy it. Always verify something first.

And the abbreviation NEWS means Notable Events, Weather and Sports not North East West South.