Ey, check your phone!

Newspapers are suppose to tell the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Or well, one would think so anyway. They are suppose to not take sides and just be objective to a situation. Of course, since the news is written by people and people can't stay objective the news itself is of course not objective either. Then we do, of course, have the interests that influence the news. The money that floods into the newspaper production, that pays the salary, that decides what's interesting and what's not.

This is a picture of a crashed train. It crashed on New Year's Day this year and the report to why it crashed it now finished. In the news it says:

The train, which was 140m long and with a weight of 323 tons

kept a speed of about 30km/h.
There were damages on the buffer stop and
150 ties which much be replaced.

A contributing reason to the train's speeding
was that the driver for some reason didn't brake
the train during the drive up to the buffer stop.
(www.sydsvenskan.se)

Now for the fun part, because let's face it - there's always a fun part. A month or so ago I was on my way to the university and sat on a lovely bus on my way to the train station. Directly behind me on this bus was two people talking and discussing this accident. They were both co-workers to the guy who drove the train and apparently he'd fallen asleep and smashed it. It's funny what the news are forced to keep quiet, isn't it?