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Social criticism and the mission of the true journalist
Social criticism and the mission of the true journalist
16/7/15
Journalism has been contributing to the process of
social democratization. This process is replacing monologue with dialogue,
monopoly/ give and take mechanism with competition.
The role of journalism is
very important in making the negative issues and covered mistakes come to light
of the law, especially in comparison with inside fighting against the bad
things. Journalists are the soldiers in “a huge fight against the old and
spoiled things and to create new and good things” as President Ho Chi Minh
wrote in his will.
Journalists are playing well
the role of social criticism of journalism. In science, it’s very clear that
there is no “criticism”, there is no development because science is a chain of
fixed mistakes. And the fixing is the result of discussion, criticism of the
wrong and accepting the right.
There is not only in science
that need the “criticism”, but also in areas of a society such as politics,
economics, culture...
Along with transferring
policies, guidelines and messages from top to down, journalism also have a
function to take feedbacks and other information from down to top to make the
better adjustment and fixing.
With the development of the
Internet, people are now connected worldwide. And the prevention of accessing
information is impossible. Sometimes, the prevention makes people more curious
and really want to find the information themselves in the Internet.
Therefore, at this time,
journalism has much condition to implement its honored mission that is to live
among people, to faithfully share hopes and worries, love and hatred, happiness
and sadness with people.
The will and power of people
will decide its own development. This has been demonstrated clearly in our
history.
Nowadays, we’re watching a
lot of hot news, informative events on newspapers, TVs... that is the
journalist’s efforts. In this “huge fight”, sometimes journalists have to face
with dangerous situations, even threatening to their lives.
The activeness in finding information
and the accuracy in analysis of events of journalists are shown on their news
that is awaited by the public.
The public has realized that
is straight access to get to the truth, reflecting wills and hopes of all class
of society, making social pressures to fight against the old, bad and spoiled
things that are hindering the development of the country.
Journalism and mass media
are implementing well the function of social criticism of journalism. The
public always highly treasures and respects the journalists who are faithful
and brave to bring the truth to light, event taking high cost to their lives.
Implementing the function of
social criticism, journalism is contributing to social democratization. This
process is replacing monologue with dialogue, monopoly/give and take mechanism
with competition, contributing to fulfilling the shared mission of building and
protecting the country./.
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All comments [ 9 ]
The society is now really open, people have a lot of conditions to develop their ability
Journalism have a very important role in building people's awareness and behavior.
I want to be a true journalist who belongs to the public and the truth.
Criticism is good for the development of society.
Following the leadership of the Party, journalism will have a very good way to develop
nowadays there are so many types of media for readers to choose
some newspapers often reported the sensational information, inaccurate information, even distorted to attract readers so need to have control over the media
in the past time, many cases of corruption have been found by press, which demonstrates it's role in making a better society
so it's not right that some people have criticized Vietnam's violations of press freedom
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