Media Frenzy

I've always looked down on how the media can take a story and blow it out of proportion. Weather they don't have the facts or they stretch the truth to put readers or viewers on a certain side of the story. Just recently, news streamed across the country about a child being carried away in a giant helium balloon. Now common sense would tell anyone that has ever taken a high school physics class that there would be no way that a balloon that size could possibly lift a child. It would take about as many balloons as one could fit in a two story house to be able to equal out the gravity holding the child down. Plus, the child would not fly off the way the balloon in the video showed; more like hover. So why would the media be so hasty to make this a breaking news story? I honestly don't blame the father of the child who knowingly filmed this hoax as much as the media for airing it. It is times like these that I feel I cannot even trust the media anymore.