Newpapers!! Can we trust?

Newspapers are basically the news printed onto paper so that people can read them and find out what is happening. They are there to inform people of the news and what is happening throughout the world or the country. Stories or articles are written into the paper by journalists who write the articles from sources or the seen. However sometimes the articles written can appear to be exaggerated or even completely false. Often the false stories are about what celebrities have been doing or what has happened to them but there is one other topic which also leads to a large number of flase stories. Climate change and its effects on the world and the people is this topic.


Climate change is very misunderstood and disputed all over the world. Some people belive that climate change or global warming is just a natural occurance just like the ice age millions of years ago, however others belive it is down to human actions such as burning fossil feuls. Due to these conflicts climate change has become a highly talked about thing by the british public. This triggers the journalists to write articles about it and make people by their paper. But how true are these articles?

Newspapers need to sell to make money and if people are talking about climate change then they are going to want to read a newspaper article on it, so the newspapers write about them. Front line stories about different changes in the world such as 'Climate change is human say experts' or stories about animal changes ' Bird migration change show warming of planet'. Stories like these make people want to read that paper because it has a new dramatic story on climate change. These stories arent always true, some stories can be exaggerated to make it more readable, for example sometimes results from a test in temperature are increased to make it seem more dramatic. Sometime stories are also made to make the governments targets on climate change look bad, people often want to read about a failing government and often targeting climate change is the best way to do this because it is a difficult subject to handle.

Journalists have to make money for their newspaper and they will relie on sources of information to write the articles for the newspaper. Sources can sometimes be unreliable and sometimes inaccurate. This leads to a false article which people will read.

Tabloid newpapers seem to target more the 'working class' population. These newspapers such as The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, will often write more elaborated articles for their readers. Readers like to take out the information which they want to read so are often bombared with different figures allowing them to take out of the artcile what they want to read, other times figures are hardly seen at all this can often be the signs of an either more elaborated or a made up article.

Overall we can see that climate change is a very money spinning topic for newspapers and many other types of media. People want to know and hear about climate change so if there are little interesting stories newspapers will come up with ones about climate change to make people read there paper. The government is an easy target for this topic and are commonly used in stories. Newspapers are their to give people news and facts about things. In the case of climate change it is up to the people to decide who and what they want to belive.