Monday 23 November 2015

How The Mass Media Constructs Stories

Mass Media Constructs Stories:
The media went mad in 2012 about a Polish dentist that supposedly extracting every single one of her
ex-boyfriend's teeth. The story was reported by the Daily Mail, abc News and several other major news organizations.

The story said that "Beware a scorned woman with dental pliers. A  Polish man learned this lesson the hard way when his dentist ex-girlfriend pulled out all his teeth during  a surgery days after he'd dumped her for another woman." . The story went on to apranti have quotes from the toothless boyfriend and the girlfriend that took her revenge.

But the story was put forward as horrifying act from another woman who couldn't control her emotions even having a quote of her say as much "I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions," but when the story was investigated there was no evidence that this ever happened. 

The Wroclaw police stated that the crime was never reported and the legal adviser for Poland's Chamber of Physicians and Dentists had said that there was no dental practitioner named Anna Mackowiak. The story was then removed from the Daily Mail page and the headline has been changed.


Fabricated story:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/04/polish-dentist-pulls-ex-boyfriends-teeth-out/

True report:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/28/dentist-pulls-all-exs-teeth-out_n_1461288.html

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