Today there are so many sources of news and information that it is difficult to know what to believe. |
Thanks to the development of information technology, people can easily obtain great amout of information by various methods. Some people believe that this trend helps people to figure out various events and news happening in the world quickly. In the other hands, the other people complain that they have troubles on trusting the accurary of infomation because much unconfirmed information are circulating and sponsorship induces media company to lose neutral attitude to press news.
To begin with, as many unanonimous people provide various rumors and wrong information on internet bulletin board today, people are difficut to distiguish which information is true or rumor. Furthermore, this rumors often are treated as the truth just before officail agency proclaims the truth. Accoridng to the investigation conducted by Korea Stock Exchange, everyday various kind of information were made by various stakeholder unoffically for the purpose of raising their stock price. This unconfirmed information affected the price of stock sensitively. Therefore, most investers suffered the troubles which information they might believe. This case illustrates the more information is not better.
In addition to that, mass media's attitude is another main factor to prevent people to cast doubt on the accuracy of information. In order words, media company can not escape the sponsor company's influence. This is due to the fact that major financial revenue in the media company is from advertisements. So media companies are afraid that sponsoring will quit when their criticize sponsor company's problem. For example, a few years ago, Samsung Electronics, the largest company in Korea, made a scandle that the group owner handed over his stock illegally without paying inheritance tax. So Justice Departments in Korea sue him to the court. Even though he deserve to get all resposibility, most press said that this scandle should cover quickly without fully investigation because this scandle would have negative influence on Korea economy. But it revealed that Samsung threatened to stop sponsoring and pubshed that presses should express the attitude on the scandle. This case shows that press is not always neutral when delievering news.
To sum up, nowaday information-receivers could not believer completely on news and information from various sources because various rumors and media's attitude. Therefore, people might raise the ability to read the article and information subjectively but not to take it without criticism. |