▶ Your Answer :
An intriguing topic of discussion at hand is whether information in the news media is reliable and unbiased. The answer to this question can vary greatly depending on the individual perspectives. Thus the jury may still be out, but as far as I concerned, I disagree with the statement. In this essay, I will present two reasons supporting my standpoint as follows.
To begin with, the news media are closely related to specific interest. To be specific, all of the news media have different backgrounds and different interests. So it can be used as a tool for specific needs, especially for political usage. For instance, Korean past President Park used it politically. He confined reporters to report only specific information which were advantageous to him. Once there anyone who did not want to follow that, then he suppressed him.
On top of that, news media have fundamental problem which have limitation to gather information. Reporters get information from the ground, such as interview. This limitation confine them to report high quality of information to people. There must be unbalance in information between reporter and a person that directly involved. This makes people hard to believe news as a reliable source of information. For example, as I was work for school reporter, I felt extremely hard to amass some information. That was because I have lack of information gathering skill, but I think it was fundamental problem. Reporters have responsibility to offer high quality of information. However, reporters have difficulty in gathering some facts.
In conclusion, I strongly argue for my standpoint on account of two reasons mentioned above. Once again, although the verdict may still be out, I personally believe that two of my rationales above are sufficiently convincing enough to represent the viewpoints of majority of people who are in favor of my claim. |