Blog #5...The Importance of Being Accurate

This chapter ends with a short discussion of accuracy, but this is not the first time that accuracy has been mentioned in this book. Go through the first four chapters and find references to it. Why is so much made of the concept of accuracy? List the reasons given in the book and ones that you can think of on your own.
At the end chapter 5, of Writing for the Media Stovall says, “Accuracy forms the core of the writing process.” I agree with the point Stovall is making because if you are reading an article from a reputable source it is assumed that you can trust the writers. When writing an article about an event that is going to happen the author has to use the correct information or the readers are going to get upset if they have been given the wrong information. Stovall says that accuracy isn’t just something that has to be done it is also “a state of mind that the journalist foster.” Stovall mentions accuracy for the first time on page 44 of Writing for the Media. He If your readers don’t trust you then you will never have an audience and no job. For example, people trust the weather person on television to tell them the correct weather temperature. If a weather person were to lie and say its 80 degrees when it’s really 20 degrees would make people very angry and the news station would lose a lot of viewers and money. Stovall states that the writers as well want to accurate. If your writing is accurate then people will take you seriously. A good way to be accurate is to be flexible when it comes to ideas and not just say this is the something is.