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6-14独立作文：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Recently, we have so many sources of news and information, so that we cannot tell which one is the real one or who is telling the truth.

We are now living in a world with information explosion which means we are forced to face the unimaginable production and propagation of information that beyond our ability to deal with. I think in daily life most people have ever encountered the difficulty in telling the falsehood from the truth when they have so many sources of news. When we dive to the bottom of this problem, we would find that the individual free speech, twisted news provided by media just for catering the public’s appetite both have a share.

At the first place, regardless of the influence they might have on others, everyone would like to express their opinions objectively or just for their own benefit in many ways almost without any cost, especially through the Internet. In this case, myriad of information, either stating the fact or fabricating lies for unspeakable purpose, is widely and quickly spread, directly leading to the difficulty in discerning truth. Such as the rumor of doomsday in 2012 after the popular film <2012> which has induced a hot debate on the destiny of our planet. On the one side is increasing natural catastrophes reported all around the world, bringing people with the fact that our planet have already in seriously bad conditions which make the doomsday seem to be plausible, while on the other side are the clarification from scientists that these phenomenon are just natural climate change caused by periodical activity of sun and the core of earth. Although it looks like that the doomsday might just be some rumors disseminated by some with evil intentions to foment panic in public, what about the uncountable people and animals died from the calamities, is there no clue for us about our destiny? People obviously lost their orientation to go.

At the next place, in order to maximize their profit, media just give people the information that they are interested in, for instance, the gossip of celebrity whether real or not. Michel Jackson, the most famous super music star has been accused by child abuse which shocked almost everyone in the world. At a result, he gradually relied on drugs to relieve his tremendous mental pressure from media and public, and finally died with hideous agonies. However, all the truth came out after he dies which startled the public again. What people lost is not only a great treasure of pop music, but also a great philanthropist. With the lessons like this, people today are not likely to believe the reports even if they actually are real.

In sum, the irresponsible information distributed by individuals and the lessons learned at the cost of blood made people confused and feel lost. I think on the horizon are information filtration to protect our “information evironment”.