▶ Your Answer :
As everything in life is like a coin which has two different
sides, people should weigh pros and cons before jumping to conclusions. After
all, each and every question of topic requires careful deliberation in that
there is always multiple variables to a truth. Even though some adamantly say
that the news media is a reliable source of unbiased information, I strongly
think such opinion lacks coherence to some extent. In my humble opinion, the
news media is not as reliable as people would think for the following reasons.
First and foremost, few people would deny that nowadays news media
is inclined to be obsessed with the fastness rather than accuracy. As the
majority of netizen recognizes the fastest article or news in the net, the most
recent and fastest news catch people’s eyes which implies that fastness of
delivering news is directly related to the success of the press-company. To
illustrate my point more thoroughly, many reporters in press-company such as
MBC, SBS have fixation of finding exclusive. They sometimes wait for all day
long to ask some questions to some politicians or celebrities who are in issue.
Since fastness is reciprocally proportional to accuracy of the information,
their news could easily distorted or exaggerated.
On top of that, big capital can control the information that news
provide. Since press-companies cannot operate without money, they are
vulnerable to enormous power of black money. Therefore, they can provide
misleading or distorted information controlled by lobby of some groups such as political
parties or major company. For instance, each and every turn of the political
situation, press-companies usually report the information which is favorable to
dominant political party. Generally, they try to hide the negative facts that
may harm the party’s reputation in conjunction with threaten from the party. This
prevents people from drawing proper evaluation of the party and makes them be
partial-minded on the political issues.
In summation, it is virtually impossible to provide completely
satisfying answer to the open-ended question. Although the jury may be out of
this given topic, we can come to a mutual agreement that it is naive to believe
the news media is reliable source for unbiased information. |