Don’t always believe what you read!

I was reading an article which caught my eye. It was one of the most recent blogs which talked about a 5,200 year old cartoon. The title caught my eye. This blog is about an ancient artifact found in Iran in the 1970’s. There is paintings on this “bowl” around the whole circumference of a goat and some trees. If you turn the bowl around, it appears to be an animation of the goat hoping towards a tree.  This seemed interesting to me, it was the first animation, and it dated back 5200 years!  I thought “wow, this is kinda neat”.  Then i was reading the comments just to see some feedback.  Many people realized that the animation on the top of the post was not at all accurate.  The background is completely static, not changing as the goat moves. This is virtually impossible to do with a paintbrush. Some of the other people found pictures of the real artifact and say there is only three different “scenes” on the artifact. 

This just goes to show that the validity of things is not always what you think it is.  Right away, I will no longer go to this blog if I am looking for accurate information or facts. If it were his opinion on the artifact, then it would not have to be factual. I think this reflects not only a blog, but much of the media today.  The media contorts things to get more viewers and make some things seem more interesting than they may really be.  This artifact may not have been an animation.  There are only three pictures on it!  The author of this blog did a good job at getting views on his blog by having an attractive and interesting heading, but one can not or should not change the facts to do so.  I am not singling this particular blog out because there are many like this one and not only blogs. Other media such as the news, newspaper, and any other source of media use tactics such as this to attract an audience.

This is why I believe that one should not always believe what they read! The only real information one can obtain would be from a primary source, interpreted by oneself.  In this time and age a person almost has to be skeptical about anything they read. You have to interpret information received assuming that there is bias and false information included. I believe that everything would be more efficient if false information was tagged online or censored from television.  I am not against opinionated responses or anything like that. I think that is very important but I think in this time in society, a person must be very skeptical about anything they read, and take everything with a grain of salt.