Once, newspapers was one of the most assure, reliable and credible source for people to acquire certain precise news and information. Thus, it was one of the main source of medium that people will solely belief on its content without doubting any uncertainties. Furthermore, slowly as the technology needed to developed and news update can simply get from various types medium like radio, television and online internet. Once, newspapers is one of the most reliable source of news were now become one of the untrustworthy or I suppose a type of dishonest information medium provider which either television, video or the internet are dependable too.
Or in another words, the news values became deceptive nowadays where the foremost influence be can probably found in the journalist’s working etiquette on news publishing or media owners are safeguarding themselves in such a way for business profit. Today, not most of all the journalist have etiquette on reporting, writing or publishing a news article either they over exaggerate hence they simplified it and some might happen to miss out some important information which be useful for readers or people who related to that particular news and news transparency are challenging for them publish. Values and rules of certain journalist have been practiced imprecisely immoral whereby the media owner have somewhat to walked through the fault of it.
Picture courtesy of: http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/racial-and-religious-exclusivism-rapped/
Just this year, during the Malaysia’s 13th General Election I found that I have actually learnt that newspapers media companies have certainly play a very big part on publishing news and were obliquely and partially monopolized by the government. I have also learnt that newspapers that have been in relation with the government have been biased in reporting news to the citizen whereby the company itself are trying to assured themselves from publishing news that relates offense certain political or government bodies. However, still I have been contradicting whether this source of information were true or have I been unassumingly influenced by another misleading news by another new source of news provider which is the internet.
I admit myself a part of technological savvy villager from the ‘Global Village’ to adhere various source of information and news here. As born by the Generation Y, I doubt many of us here get news and information by this convenient informant of news provider. In fact, the social media website, for instance, Facebook and Twitter have been the leading and largest form of website that people tend to get information and news. Cottle (2011) have stress that indeed some have been so bold as to label them as the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ or ‘Facebook Revolutions’ in recognition of the prominent part played by new social media, whether in the co-ordination of mass protests, communication of real-time images and up-to-date information, or processes of contagion across places. The Arab Spring movement have been certainly very much play and influence by the strong communications of viral videos in Facebook and tweets in Twitter which can portray to world of how strong is the social media websites can be strongly influencing by credible and incredible news and it will however stretches massive powerful impact either positive and negative on the political view.
In my assumption for new values, we all standing as the reader point of view, we will need to have a strong determination and adapt to the ability to differentiate distinction from the untruthful and incredible news and be smart on choosing which to believe and what not. While, from the view of journalist and media owner must have the sense of quitting and putting aside of their own beneficial where one news can actually influence a lot of people perception, feeling and thought. I am here still reading various types of news from different medium and thinking to myself whether the news is true by transparency or spinning and turning within the truth of the news have been played apart….
Lastly, I would like to share how I personally shape a definite believe that our country’s news values haven been in control and transparency of news does not signifies any priority. Besides, the social media have been playing a big role in news releases and have been playing a vast impact among people. Here I share a blog of my ex-classmate sister’s biggest fear and tragedy of her life and family which is indeed one of the saddest case of the year.
References:
Cottle, S (2011) ‘Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research Notes’ 2011 Journalism 12: 647 available online at http://api.ning.com/files/CNFhpNFhUT*24guoaYVkLHrjkGDSXAhyiaR1*95ttbmPU6YLdzZfC2CVKzOf4fwLzPItHz8OqcP9N*2Yj5Ystb6gaqdNy9hG/CottleMediaandtheArabUprising.pdf
lipstiq.com. 2013. DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HER MOM’S DEATH. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.lipstiq.com/2013/04/22/daughter-speaks-out-about-her-moms-death/. [Accessed 19 October 13].
Netto, T, 2011. Twin Scourges of Malaysia rapped. DIN MERICAN: THE MALAYSIAN DJ BLOGGER, [Online]. 17, 1. Available at: http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/racial-and-religious-exclusivism-rapped/ [Accessed 19 October 2013].
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