Some people think that the news media is reliable source of unbiased information. This is due to the fact that the news’ object is to deliver right information to public. However I disagree with this view. There are two reasons why I feel this way.
First of all, information that delivered to public is decided by station’s political identity. To be specific the news is made by producer’s choice. Producer determines which source is suitable for their news program. In this point, the most important thing is their political view. For example, 1 station is side on republican and 2 station is side on democrat, when they face the some issues, they would mention by their political perspective or even decide to on air or not. As a matter of fact, when I watched two news channels that they broadcast regarding same issues, sometimes they speak differently depend on their political status, one was pretty cynical the other was favorable. As a result the news media can easily lose their justice.
On top of that the news media can manipulate their audience. This is because the news company chooses an order for their arrangement and quantity to broadcast. Let’s assume that what if station send sport information at first and quite long time, then audience could easily believe, that source is important. Secondly, what if they send serious political issues on the end of the news very briefly, most people would just passed by. According to the poll conducted by The Korean Times, the 40% of audience do not watching till end of the news. The reason is that they also think important issues will be reported initially. In this regard, the news station can manipulate audiences.
To sum up, in this regard I firmly believe that the news media is not a reliable source, the news media can abuse their power to audience and news station can manipulate their information.