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The mass media is a business, and like a business it needs to survive in a "dog eat dog world" that is highly competitive and very erratic.
Mass media makes its money by selling their product and by selling their audiences. Mass media in essence sells you when they produce an article in a newspaper. They know that if they have something that is newsworthy you will buy their product and then they have in essence sold you to their advertisers because you will be reading the advertising along with the article.
If there is nothing to put in the newspapers then they will lose money so often news is made to be something more than what it is to generate public interest. So yes sometimes you are being fed exagerated lies only to sell you to advertising!
Be skeptical of everything you read, and then make your own judgement call with the information you have been provided! In philosophical terms it means that you should never take anything as a final truth
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