One question I have been asking myself in comparing the way news is written in the UK and the US is are Americans too sensitive? It seems to me that they are. I found a website that agrees with what I think. “Political correctness is a deliberate attack on free speech. Because something may offend somebody doesn’t mean it isn’t true or shouldn’t be said… Americans have become too sensitive. By this I mean that they are too easily offended.” Reporters and journalists will leave details or pictures out of an article because the information may be offensive to some. So, is it right to only tell part of the story to save sensitive Americans from being offended? The journalists in the UK don’t seem to think so. They will include every detail of a murder that is available, or put a picture of a bloody wounded soldier in a paper. I believe American journalists don’t include the whole truth because Americans don’t want to have to admit or believe that it is the truth. Americans don’t want to know all the gruesome details of a murder because if they don’t know them, they can think what they want about what really happened, instead of being told what really happened. To Americans, ignorance is bliss.
http://americaswatchtower.com/2008/01/21/have-americans-become-too-sensitive/
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