It still generates heat debate whether the new media is a believable and unbiased source of information or not. Some people seems to think that news media always tell the truth. However, I see the distortion of information which are caused by pursuing of profits and striving to make issues more sensational. Therefore, I strongly believe the information from the news media cannot be reliable and plausible.
First, the news media companies are likely to show an event as what they want to depict. It is intensified when specific events are related with their own profit. The best example of this is the Iraq war. When the United States started this war, a lot of news medias in America portrayed the war as a necessarity for the world peace and expansion of democracy. And they stated the war are inevitable to defeat terriorists. However, some countries that were against for the United States depicted the U.S army as ruthless and savage invaders. They also emphasized on the scenes of brutality because they wanted to intensify the tragedy of war.
Second, the news media cannot be plausible because as they tend to make issues more vivid and colorful. Thus, they sometimes exaggerate events and it leads bad results. For example, in Korea, a lot of kim-chi companies had to close because the news media reported that kim-chi companies made their products in unsanitary and unclean conditions. They also revealed that these corporations had used poor and coarse quality ingredients when they made kim-chi. As a result, a number of costomers did not buy their products anymore and therefore, numerous owners had to stop running their companies and close factories. However, it turned out that only few numbers of companies had made Kim-chi in such unhealthy environment. The broadcast company should apologize their faults and exaggerations of reports to both a lot of viewers and Kim-chi product companies.
To sum up, I firmly believe that the news media are bised and unreliable. This is because they tend to distort information for their own profits and exaggerate an event for making it more dramatically. |