My story this week comes from the Radio Times, it isn't specifically a news story but to me it was an interesting one. On Good Morning Britain this week, Bill Turnball was a guest and was reunited with his former co-presenter Susanna Reid, who now presents with Piers Morgan. It was evident there would be some banter about the reunion, however what interested me the most was the media coverage.Headlines such as 'Piers Morgan was furious' and 'Anger strikes as Reid and Turnball are reunited' were spread online, yet I watched this show and there was no sign of any frustration from Piers.
This is a typical example of how the media exaggerates situations that happen on television, if someone had seen that article but hadn't watched the show, they would be intrigued because it gives off the impression that there was an argument when there wasn't.
What do I think about this article?
I wanted to use this as my news update because it is a big eye opener as to how exaggerated things are, and considering this wasn't the most interesting of stories and it can be blown up to this extent, it makes me wonder how exaggerated major
news stories are
You address an interesting point here. are there any other example of the media exaggerating people actions either in reference to piers Morgan or good morning Britain to triangulate sources of to each compare.
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