On Friday or Saturday, I watched a TV program about a sarin accident which occured in Nagano in 1994.Through this TV program, I realized how influential media are.
At first, many news programs said that Kouno Yoshiyuki might be a climinal. In fact, he was a victim of the accident and he and his wife suffered from the sarin. However, many news programs convey the information about the accident without enough proof, and he and his family suffered from the harassing such as silent calling. And this continued by the time it turned out that this accident was caused by Omu shinrikyou.
Finally, many media apologized to him, but we cannot forget this accident.
I think mass media have very big effect on our information so they have to convey true information and be resiponsible for what they convey.
