Although all newspapers are believed to be objective, the truth is quiet different from the reality. Comparing the reports on the Olympic Games Opening from three different newspapers around the world, The LA Times, The Korea Herald, and Standard from Hong Kong, the differences immediately arise and expose themselves. For instance, those three newspapers reported different numbers of athletes who had attended Olympics from 197 countries. The cause of this disagreement is unknown and unclear, however, under today s technology, the possibility for news reporters attaining the wrong numbers of athletes is nearly zero.
Human manipulation occurs more likely than information gathering errors.
More importantly, this manipulation may be a result of adjusting number to satisfy readers interests. In addition to various figures, another interesting thing is the relationships among the number of athletes and the sizes of countries where those reporters came from. The correlation seems to be that for a larger country, their newspapers seem to report greater number of athletes attended. Although the real reason is unknown and further investigation needed, it is reasonable to conclude the following possibilities. First, it may be that a country as big and strong as U.S. may wish to display its prosperity that under the courtesy of U.S., more athletes than ever came to the 96 Olympics.