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"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
When the pen was made mightier than the sword it was not done to uphold any poetic justice. The concern was to show the world that blood could be spilled without involving longer and sharper blades because a pointed one had more area covered.
Journalism became an art of divulging the truth owever bitter it was and by whatever means it can come. Although this is an idealistic definition, most loved and maybe once a reality.
The actual artistry in today's time, lies in what all can be served as the truth, so eloquently, that one would never know "the reality" in it's true form.
But like in all grand schemes, there lie a few loop holes and that is from where at times we are made aware of the "original truth."
If viewed more academically, Journalism is nothing but a work of distributing facts, analysis and real time events to the public through written, spoken or recently, electronic medium.
One is considered to be a neutral party when he/she is conveying these news to the people and letting themform their own opinions. But because the involved parties in a news are mostly corporal like all of us, neutrality is often laid to rest.
But what's more important in all of these contradictions is that Journalism, through it's activism has brought awareness among people. By converging the whole world and it's current situations to every existing human being, it keeps us informed of all that is happening and may happen around us.
It started out as a printed sheet of affairs, dating back to as late as the second century and has kept evolving since. The print media was ruled by the fluent writers, whose opinions were liberal and hard hitting, invoking in the hearts of the public a fire of wakefulness. Later radio transmissions became a rage when they set the waves in motion and like always the spoken words made a greater impact because the exact feelings were felt rather than realized, as was happening with print media.
Television however will be considered the king of all the mediums because here it was, for the first time, that one had seen the world far away from them, a world and the people they thought existed in stories told since long. The breaching of distance and the kindling of the hope that something beyond was in reach made epics in time. And when we view the present day, internet rules all. It's a combination of all the mediums. You read, listen and view anything, anywhere, at any given time. Also you can contribute and even create a news by yourself. While the earlier champions worked with a free will, internet is but a devoted servant.
But the difference ends there. The news here too is provided by humans, it is propagated by them and of course taken in by them, thus Manipulation of data and glorification of falsehood happens here as well as in all the other segments.
One cannot be too careful around something that is run by us.
In most nations, news media is under the supervision of the Governments but a few do enjoy the freedom of the press. Although those few cannot be said to have full liberty. Transparency between the news and the public is a desired wish, which is most hard to be fulfilled.
If viewed in the past, Journalism had valued the "code of ethics," where impartiality, truthfulness, objectivity, accuracy, fairness and public accountability were held up in accumulating the news. The dissemination of information was done in a manner that brought about moral change.
While we can say that not all has gone bad, there is no way one can assume that the media is feeding us everything hygienic.
The sensationalism of information has robbed Journalism from it's ethics in a substantial way but below we give you a view of both the facets of this intriguing piece of ingenuity, without being biased. Although if we take a look at the present scenario, Satan is definitely looking pleased.
Credits:
18shabbo || asmaanixx
|| _7th_HorcruX_ || puzzles. || verisimilitude ||
Thank you to:
BornThisWay & santiagosentyou
When the pen was made mightier than the sword it was not done to uphold any poetic justice. The concern was to show the world that blood could be spilled without involving longer and sharper blades because a pointed one had more area covered.
Journalism became an art of divulging the truth owever bitter it was and by whatever means it can come. Although this is an idealistic definition, most loved and maybe once a reality.
The actual artistry in today's time, lies in what all can be served as the truth, so eloquently, that one would never know "the reality" in it's true form.
But like in all grand schemes, there lie a few loop holes and that is from where at times we are made aware of the "original truth."
If viewed more academically, Journalism is nothing but a work of distributing facts, analysis and real time events to the public through written, spoken or recently, electronic medium.
One is considered to be a neutral party when he/she is conveying these news to the people and letting themform their own opinions. But because the involved parties in a news are mostly corporal like all of us, neutrality is often laid to rest.
But what's more important in all of these contradictions is that Journalism, through it's activism has brought awareness among people. By converging the whole world and it's current situations to every existing human being, it keeps us informed of all that is happening and may happen around us.
It started out as a printed sheet of affairs, dating back to as late as the second century and has kept evolving since. The print media was ruled by the fluent writers, whose opinions were liberal and hard hitting, invoking in the hearts of the public a fire of wakefulness. Later radio transmissions became a rage when they set the waves in motion and like always the spoken words made a greater impact because the exact feelings were felt rather than realized, as was happening with print media.
Television however will be considered the king of all the mediums because here it was, for the first time, that one had seen the world far away from them, a world and the people they thought existed in stories told since long. The breaching of distance and the kindling of the hope that something beyond was in reach made epics in time. And when we view the present day, internet rules all. It's a combination of all the mediums. You read, listen and view anything, anywhere, at any given time. Also you can contribute and even create a news by yourself. While the earlier champions worked with a free will, internet is but a devoted servant.
But the difference ends there. The news here too is provided by humans, it is propagated by them and of course taken in by them, thus Manipulation of data and glorification of falsehood happens here as well as in all the other segments.
One cannot be too careful around something that is run by us.
In most nations, news media is under the supervision of the Governments but a few do enjoy the freedom of the press. Although those few cannot be said to have full liberty. Transparency between the news and the public is a desired wish, which is most hard to be fulfilled.
If viewed in the past, Journalism had valued the "code of ethics," where impartiality, truthfulness, objectivity, accuracy, fairness and public accountability were held up in accumulating the news. The dissemination of information was done in a manner that brought about moral change.
While we can say that not all has gone bad, there is no way one can assume that the media is feeding us everything hygienic.
The sensationalism of information has robbed Journalism from it's ethics in a substantial way but below we give you a view of both the facets of this intriguing piece of ingenuity, without being biased. Although if we take a look at the present scenario, Satan is definitely looking pleased.
Credits:
18shabbo || asmaanixx
|| _7th_HorcruX_ || puzzles. || verisimilitude ||
Thank you to:
BornThisWay & santiagosentyou
Shiv Shakti
