There has been an argument about whether news media is reliable source of unbiased information or not. I firmly believe that, as far as I am concerned, news media is not fair source. This is due to the fact that news media plays a role as a gatekeeper. In addition, it is mostly subjected by it's political owner.
To start with, news media plays a pivotal role in keeping and controling information like gatekeeper. As we already know, the word 'gatekeeper' means that people do not get information without filering of news media because the media governs machanism of flowing of information. Generally speaking, it is natural that all indirect information which was collected, stored, and reorganized cannot be roughly or purely delivered to the public. Thus, all we can recieve is refined and we cannot choose which information can be delivered, what kind of subject or truth should be conveyed, or how we get certain kind of information at all. For example, when I surf the web, the first thing which come into my eyes is some articles in the portal. Of course, the articles are chosen by the portal and even the reporter wrote the articles in incorrect way. I can easily find tht there are so many kind of error in the articles regard to the contents or realities. This is one of the reason why I think that news media cannot be the impartial means of delivery.
On top of that, news media tend to reflects their owner's subjective perspective. I understand that there may exist politically neutral news media. In practice, however, a wide range of news media such as newspaper, television, internet media, and so on, has quite politically preferential view following their main thought of owners or founders. For instance, Chosun-Ilbo, the major newspaper in Korea, is known that it has a conservative view point, whereas Hankyurae which is opposed to Chosun-Ilbo has pretty prograssive perspective. Simply looking at these two news paper company, we can find how these company's view are different each other so many of their information is not corresponding and even some think that perhaps we Korean have two different country. As I mentioned above, therefore, we can say that news media is truely subjective.
Taking all of these things into account, it is clear that news media is not reliable because it controls not only the flowing of information but also subjective point of view. In this aspect, it is very recommended to accept the information in news media carefully.
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