The comic strips above entitled "Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet. It is being taken from "Introduction to Mass Communications: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran. The sequence above shows that a man who reads the news from the Internet that was actually written by a kid.
It brings out the message to people that Internet is a place where every actions are not forbidden. Everyone is free to voice out their opinion about everything. For me, I do not pay full trust to the news appear on the Internet. I will believe the news authenticity if it come out with a proof and a strong claim to the story. If the news are written without a strong claim to it, I may not believe with what being told by the writer.
The situation in the comic strips also tells that the rumors and lies nowadays are fast and easily to be spread through the whole world. With just a computer and an Internet connection, everyone are able to write anything that they want in the form of blog, e-mail or any other medium that be able in the Internet world. It is hard to determine the authenticity of the news in Internet nowadays. So, we must be careful on whether to believe on any news or not.
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