▶ Your Answer : Some people may think that the news media provides unbiased information with reliable sources. However, I think that the news media doesn't offer us credible source of neutral information. This is because each writer or reporter of the news media provides their own opinions while informing news and to increase ratings of the news they tend to inform news with exaggeration.
To begin with, writers and reporters of news has their own perspectives and tend to reflect it on the news. During the process trying to announce information specifically, they usually inevitably reflect their own perspectives on the news, since it is very hard for every people to avoid their own viewpoints when even writing essays, informative writings. Hence, many people recommend and try to access as many and diverse news media on the same affairs, since they know each news medium takes different positions on the same affairs. For example, Josun Newspaper, one of the most famous newspapers in Korea, tends to write their articlesat conservative perspectives. In contrast, Donga Newspaper which is also one of the most popular newspapers in Korea, tends to write articles with radical views. By this, most citizens in Korea usually read those two or more newspapers to keep neutral terms on the matters, if they have spare to read them all.
On top of that, to increase ratings, news media have a tendency to write articles with biased viewpoints. News meida tend to struggle for providing articles that can attract people and gain popularity, since it leads to higher profits. The more higer ratings they get, the more profit they would earn, such as from increased advertising fees, enlarged investments on them. For example, recently, in Korea, even some news media which have extreme perpectives on politics and diplomatic relations has began to emerge. They try to announce news on one-sided terms leading people to share and get similar perspectives like them. Through these trials, they has tried to get popularity among people and gain much profits from it. Additionally, more and more news media has emerged or changed following these trends for gaining profits.
To sum up, writers or reporters of the news media have a tendency to put their own viewpoints on the news and news media is inclined to inform news to people with bias to increase ratings. For these reasons, I disagree with the statement that the news media is a reliable source of unbiased information. |