Some people say that the news media is a reliable source of unbiased information. I disagree with opinion for two reasons. First, there are many cases that news media distorted some facts to contribute to maintain govermental power. Second, news media also depends on interviewees.
Most of all, there are many cases that news media distorted some facts to empower to current government. Numerous newspapers in my country, Republic of Korea, has reporeted biased journalism of Italy. According to the articles, as the president who has power to adjust media to dominate all of the broadcast system, there are tremendous distorted information on the issues. In my country, for instrance, since current government catched the power, control on the news media has enforced more and more. 2 years ago, many people who have progressive think was fired from a lot of journal institutions. Besides, last year, although there are numerous demonstrations in Seoul, many news media did not report about the demonstration. Needless to say, some eldely started to beilive that Korea has not troubles with governemnts and citizens and a president did well on the policies. Eventually, many university students and professors struggled for reformation of new media to change this absurd. This shows that news media is not always reliable source of unbiased information.
Furthermore, from time to time, news information came from interviewees cannot reliable. Among the articles, there are many things from the normal people who did not tell exact facts to journalists. Let me take my experience for example. When I was a senior in my university, I did internship in a major newspaper corporation in moy country for 2 months. One day, I got a chance to meet a lawyer. Because he was very promising and intelligent, I thought that it is okay to believe him absolutely. After meeting, I wrote an article and sent the script to my mentor. My article was placed on the third page of daily news paper in the next day. Unfortunately, every telephone was rushed in my workplace as my article. The lawyer did not graduate from Seoul university and lied me in many aspects. Eventually, I wroted correction on main page of the online news paper and was fired. In this sense, news meida is not reliable resource all the time.
In conclusion, I disagree that the news media is reliable resource of unbiased information for the reasons that I have mentioned above.
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