A lot of controversy exists over weather the new media provides people with credible information or not
Although many TV programs and newpapers pretend to be unbiased and accurate estabilishing the Broadcast Ethic commision, I see the distorsions in their coverage or reporting. There are two main reasons: the news media has its own stakes and it tries to make stories look more sensational.
First, given that it is related to it own stakeholders, the new media is untrustworthy.
even though the basic purpose of the new media is to inform people with the facts of events, the media often mention their opinion as a new commanentary under guaranteeing liberty of speech (freedom).
This opinion can be affected by a major corporation's intrest, which own a new pubilisher and a broadcasting station. Not only that but they also have to side with their adertiser and nations' profit.
The best example of this is the Irap War. When the war broke out, a majority of the media in the Unite State portrayed the war as a way to attain world peace. On the contrary with this, countries against the Unite States mainly showed on-the-spot broadcasts of brutal scenes that depicted the Unite States as a ruthless invader. The difference in news converage of the war plainly highlights how pratical and biased news companies are.
In a ddition, the new paper are not reliable as it attempts to make the content of the new more colorful and dramastic. This is mainly because they want to make a profit by assuring subscription to some degree so that they attract more advertiser. Although it seems to work for the public intersts, we know that it is only one of private companies which have to survive in a compatitive society. From using sensational picture or video clips to distorting the contents of the news, there are many ways to draw in viewer or readers.
For example, last year a broadcasting station reported that Kimchi was produced in very unhealthy and dirty environments, but the truth was that a certain Kimchi company did it. As a result of this report, many Kimchi business had to close down becuase people stoped buy kimchi for a while. It turned out that the reporter deliberately decieve the public to make a new.
In conclusion, because of the news media is concerned with its own stakeholers and tend to make stories more provocative to earn people's intrest, I firmly believe that the news media is an unreliable source of imformaion. |