News media is a reliable source of unbiased information. |
In the modern society, the media became the most vital source of our lives. Simply put, we are innundated with the media information. However, we need to think over how much useful the information is and how much objcetive the information is. If we look into more closely, we can easily discover that a media is not reliable and objective at all.
First, media take a certain positon with respect to all the issues. For example, a certain media takes the side of Republican and others take the side of Democratic in campaigntrail nowadays. So the media can't be objective and neutral to a certain issue.
Second, the news story is not the whole story of an issue. That is, most news story is the only tidbit of a whole story. That means, because of the limitation of printing space, it is almost impossible that a news covers the whole context mentioning details. In fact, reporters put an emphasis on a coertain point, rendering the whole stroy to be distorted. For example, it is common news that a man killed the other man on the street. If the reporters concentrate on the behavior of the murder, everyone will consider a man deserve a capital sentence. However, if the killing was committed by a self-defence, porbably the whole story will be totally different.
Last but not least, reporters pursue the more shocking story to draw much attention from readers and viewers. In general, reporters do not much care about the normal things because the mundane accidents can not be news anymore. Therfore, reporters have a tendency to trace the more shocking strories and this will lead to their obession of making the stroy embellished with subjcetive opinions and prejudices. For example, it is a common fraud that reporters manipulate a story such as UFO, new scientific findings etc.
To sum up, we'd better admit the fact that news media can hardly be objcetive for these reasons and I believe we have to filter news to see the truth. If we believe the news as it is, we are more likey to be obessed with unnecessay concerns. Let's take a final example. every scientist asserts that we have to prepare for the collision of a certaion comet and if a news media put a great emphisis on the fact that the our earth will be demolished soon, the biased perspecitve will have irrevocable, indelible impressions on the masses. |