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Journalism and receiving information nowadays
Journalism and receiving information nowadays
27/7/15
Nowadays, living in
an ocean of information, deciding which information is right and objective,
which is wrong and biased is necessary. In global communication system,
publishing and spreading unreal information to create public opinions serving
private interests are not so strange. If lack of consciousness, public opinions
will be deceived and lead to nagative impacts.
Through colliding with global communication
system, many people draw an experience that assessing and verifing information,
especially about politics and armed conflicts, are needed before jumping into
any conclusion.
The war in Iraq in 2003 is a vivid example of
creating reasons and tricking the public. At first, U.S. accused Hunsen
administration of having contacts with terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, which
is related to the September 11th incident. But, when it went beyond
that, they asserted Iraqi government possessed and developed weapons of
mass-destruction. Despite there’s no any evidence, Western media spread that
like checked information. Till 2008, when realizing that there’s no way of
denying its fabrication, those who appealed and called for the war alleviated
by allegation that, at least, it had overthrown a totalitarian regime, and
Western liberators would bring values of democracy and civilization to Iraq.
Now there’s no democracy and civilization but ciaos and killings. So disgusting
is that!
It is one-sided to say that all Western
jounalists are deceivers. There was many journalists strictly working based on
principles of professional morality. It was C.Bernstein and B.Woodward of the
Washington Post, who played an important role in disclosing the Watergate case
which led to the U.S.’ investigation and R.Nickson’s resignation in 1974. In
1971, New York and Washington Post journalists revealed the truth behind
America’s war involvement in Vietnam by articles using “Pentagon’s documents”.
Press moral principles was released in 1923 in the US. The US Association of
press editors, the Organization of professional journalists and the Press
Association have ratified the Press moral principles, calling journalists and
reporters to serve with honor, objective and fair spirit. All Western nations
have their own press moral principles, but people always stay cautious about
any information and comments. For example, in Ukraine crisis, Western media has
focused on criticizing Putin and his administration, even when nothing is
confirmed. And, when things are going so extremely, German Council of Press has
to warn those news agencies and magazines about political motives in their job
doings.
So, what we can learn from that is we can not
believe any information publicized at first before checking its reliability. We
must be wise readers and form a filter for ourself to clarify and choose right
information, don’t be abused and deceived by hostile elements. In Vietnam, now,
you can meet many self-claimed reporters and journalists which have publicized
a lot of wrong information serving their unsound purposes. Some like bloggers
Ta Phong Tan, Ba Sam, Nguoi Lot Gach… and other websites like Dan Luan, Dan Lam
Bao, SBTN… are trying to spread information that are fabricated for bad
intentions to cause turbulence and topple our regime. People should be aware of
these individuals and their doings, and the government must enhance legal means
to deal with them./.
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The main risks we identified were concerns regarding accuracy, the need for verification and the loss of control over the information.
The ever-growing digital native news world now boasts about 5,000 digital news sector jobs, according to our recent calculations, 3,000 of which are at 30 big digital-only news outlets.
Our government should have means of managing journalism activities.
Almost 50 percent of the public reports having had first-hand knowledge of a news event at some time even though they were not personally part of the story.
Good decision-making depends on people having reliable, accurate facts put in a meaningful context.
Journalism does not pursue truth in an absolute or philosophical sense, but in a capacity that is more down to earth.
Especially, on Facebook we can't trust anyone, any post.
Journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information.
As citizens encounter an ever-greater flow of data, they have more need – not less – for suppliers of information dedicated to finding and verifying the news and putting it in context.
Reporters and journalists must strive to put the public interest – and the truth – above their own self-interest or assumptions.
in the digital era, it is difficult to distinguish between real information and false information, so many people have taken advantage of this to get profits.
should stricly punish those who puplish or spread false information, especially biased information against the State in oder to serve their political plots
recently, some opponents who often distort the reality in Vietnam for bad intentions to cause turbulence and topple the regime have been stricly dealt.
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