Language is changing, and not for the better. Before parents, teachers, and the press were blamed for this but recently the media (television, radio and newspapers) are widely criticized as linguistic criminals. Newspapers write less correct English and on the radio and television mostly idiots work who speak English like the dregs of humanity. Objections range over all aspects of language. Of the ‘Top Twenty’ complaints, nine are related to grammar, six to pronunciation, and five to vocabulary. Looking at the top of the ‘Top Twenty’, the misuse of you and I versus you and me of which the latter is correct, even 400 years ago Shakespeare already misused this in The Merchant of Venice(Bauer & Trudgill, 1998). 
               According to the ‘dirty fingernails’ fallacy, journalists do not pay enough attention to language details. But this is untrue, the fallacy is largely due to ignorance about how our language changes over time. This used to be a slow and mysterious process in the 1960’s, like a tadpole slowly transforming into a frog. Though this view is a bit outdated. Now we see language change from a ‘young cuckoo’ model perspective. Competition, rather than metamorphosis, is at the root of language alterations. It starts slowly but then suddenly it upsurges. Like a new word, first adopted by a small subsection of the population, like using the word gay for homosexual, and slowly it expands its territory pushing aside other terms and eventually wiping them out. The media can nurture these new words by using them, therefore the media is a linguistic mirror: it reflects the current language usage and it extends it. They do not invent these new words, they just spread them around
(Bauer & Trudgill, 1998).
               The ‘garbage heap’ fallacy is the belief that journalism is junk writing. Though this is a false believe; press writing is a demanding skill needing to write attractive articles for the public which needs a lot of training and practice. As a news article writer you need to follow certain rules that you were taught at school in order to create an interesting and easy to read article, like; if it’s possible to cut out words, cut them out, and, never use long words were short words will do, and, avoid foreign and technical words
(Bauer & Trudgill, 1998).

When it comes to the criticism on the language changing, I have to say I disagree. Language has been changing for years, although these days the change of language can be catalysed by the media. This doesn’t ruin our language, but just fasten its already occurring change. And I believe it even enriches it.