Is what we hear from the media true?

Even though we would like to believe so, the media does not always tell the truth. Well, technically they tell the truth or else they would have a whole bunch of lawsuits against them but what they do is give you part of the story and let you assume the rest. This usually makes the story a lot worse then it is because people hear what they want to hear and this lets people's imagination go crazy. Just last week there was a fight between two high school students at the school I attend. During this fight, one student threw an unlucky punch that resulted in breaking the other students cheek bone in two spots and his eye socket. The student that threw the punch is now expelled from the school and is being charged with assault. Unfortunately the same student already has a record and will most likely be tried as an adult because he is 17. He has basically ruined the rest of his life or the beginning at least. But the worse part of this is that it was all over $20 of weed that the kid with the now broken face stole from the other. 

Now that you know what really happened I'll tell you what the media is saying. The compared the fight to David and Goliath fighting which is an exaggeration considering the one that lost was the same weight as the other but 4 inches shorter. The media also called the fight a surprise attack on the student that was injured which is far from true because both students planed the fight before hand and both showed up to the fight ready to fight. But what the media is really stuck on is the fact that nearly 50 students stud by watching without doing anything and video taped in on their phones. This as we found out was a big mistake but it was a reasonable action based on what we were told. We were told that the kid that lost the fight punched a girl in the face over the weekend so we were even hoping that he would get his ass kicked but nobody thought of the possible out comes. People now a days don't think of what a well placed punch can do because we always see fights on tv were both fighter walk away with maybe a black eye or a bloody nose but usually nothing worse. So when everyone herd the loud smack as the punch made contact there was a shout of surprise from all the onlookers as they realized that something went wrong. At this time it was to late to stop the fight but it does not make all of the students desensitized monster like the media is portraying them. Everyone makes mistakes so the students just have to learn from them and the media has to keep to the true story instead of publishing what people want to hear.