Today many mass media makes public opinion and person's though about certain facts. Information which is given by these mass media should be based on not partial facts but on reliable facts. Today ,however, many mass media has been lost their original character that gives people accurate information. This is because many news media is sponsored by certain companies and politic parties. Further more, because of internet, it also has lost their accuracy.
As I mentioned in introduction, in today, news media lose their identity. Since many news media companies has became huge, they need a monetary support. Naturally, certain companies and politic parties gives money to them. Because of these sponsors, companies make unreliable information that is beneficial to certain groups. We could see these fact in many news media. In some news papers, they openly write article that blame certain counter politic parties of their sponsor and we could see some companies uses news to advertise their new products.
Moreover, as internet has been developed, many news media lost their accuracy. Internet news media which rely on internet users is one of that. Before internet era, most news had been written by professional reporters so it was reliable. In these days, on the other hand, almost all people could write article that have their own opinion. Furthermore, many vicious internet users make lies and public people are allured by these. For example, A few monthes ago in korea Some internet user made a fake news that one famous actress had another husband. Altough this articles are turned out lie, people blamed her continuously. Because of this the actress killed herself. As this example shows, today's internet based news are not reliable and make a lethal results.
In conclusion, I disagree with the idea that news is reliable source of information because today most of them are sponsored by specific groups and based on article that is written by unprofessional people. For long time, news media has been considered, "Window of world." Although today's news media are lost their reliability, we should accept it with critical view. |