Tuesday 11 June 2013

Telephone

Have you ever played the old game known as "telephone?" In a roomful of people, one person whispers a message into another person's ear. That person then whispers the message to the next person, and so on until the message reaches the end of the room. But by the time the last person receives the message, it is significantly different from when it began.

That's how news are twisted and rumours are born. Keep that in mind whenever you hear gossips and perplexing stories that someone swears are true.  That individual may not be lying or hiding bad intentions  - it may just be that there is room for interpretation.

Never listen to one side of the story and never believe a news without sufficient evidence. Always take everything with a proverbial grain of salt because most people are naturally drawn to weird and exciting stories rather than plain and dull ones, therefore they always tend to make a mountain out of a molehill.  

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