News Blown Out of Proportion

Facts may not always be facts when it comes to news.  Whether the reader trusts the reporter depends on the credibility and the reputation of the reporter and the company he or she is reporting for.  

We've all heard that the world is going to end in December, 2012. This idea came from a Mayan calendar that was discovered.  This calendar only dates to December, so naturally the rumor of the end of the world escalated.  According to the article I found, the end of the world is confirmed to occur December 21, 2012. Archeologists that have seen the hieroglyphics believe it is clearly stated that the world will end on that date.

“They knew how long the world would last and they were extremely confident about the apocalypse.  They were much more advanced they we are today,” said Professor Kahmra Malley of Rutgers.  ”I wouldn’t make any long-term plans.”

This quote is from the article, END OF THE WORLD CONFIRMED by Weekly World News.  This article can be found by clicking here.  From this quote you can see the extreme seriousness that these archeologists are expressing by saying not to make any long-term plans.  From finding the Mayan calendar that ends on December 21, 2012, these archeologists automatically assumed that it means the world is coming to an end.  Without proof that this information is true, rumors have been spread and people continue to talk about the subject.  Instead of stating the information like it is confirmed that the world will end, the journalist should have provided the information so readers would be interested instead of scared.  The journalist could have written the story about the archeologists beliefs rather than the confirmation of the end of the world.