Let me just start off by saying I absolutely love her title. It is so creative and goes a long well with the theme and the message she is talking about in her blog post.
I also want to say that I agree with everything she said; it does seem kind of crazy that in school we are only being taught almost half of the truth when it comes to some things, like in history. For example, I always believed that Gutenberg had invented the printing press, and when I found out that he actually didn't and only really helped make an advanced version, I felt like I had been cheated. Like Caroline said, the school system just decided it would put in the education curriculum what it viewed as the most relevant, but that doesn't mean that it's the truth. I also agree with what she said about how you can't particularly do this at all as a journalist because when you are writing a news story you can't just tell half of the truth; everything has to be 100% true and factual and have reliable sources that provides evidence. In journalism we can't have those mysteries that exist in history about who created what, who said what, and so on. I am also in agreement with what she said about how some countries have a negative reputation with them when in reality (most of the time) the people to blame and the people who gave the country their bad reputation are people who are in power; it's not always the citizens' fault.
Go check out Caroline's awesome blog post by clicking on this link: http://letsbecriticalok.blogspot.com/2014/09/whostory.html
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