http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259316,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20260311,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259803,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259160,00.html
As I looked for an article which has critical thinking going wrong the first thing that came to my mind was the alleged incident with Chris Brown and Rhianna. I began looking on People Magazine for coverage on this story. All the links above pertain to this story and none of them address Rhianna or Chris Brown's side of the story. It shows the family's feelings which can portray someone worse than they are or better. Therefore these stories from people magazine break the rule of critical thinking of examine the evidence.
Hi Nikki,
ReplyDeleteLack of evidence to support the story is a major problem in entertainment news, or any sort of news about celebrities. This is for two reasons--first, the journalists and paparazzi who cover entertainment and celebrities are often biased, and they might have questionable motivation for presenting a story the way that they do. Second, some celebrities want to lead private lives, as is their right to do so, and some do not want to talk about their personal lives with the press (even though some things that are revealed about them in the press are often shocking or embarassing). For these reasons, we often do not get complete facts about celebrities. Biographers also have a difficult time gathering what is "the truth" about famous people, and so we must accept every story about a person--whether it is a news article, a biography, or even a memoir--as one interpretation of a human life.
R. Wexelbaum