How Journalism is viewed today?
Journalism in the modern day is very different from that of the past. In the past, your neighborhood newspaper, which was published every morning, provided the majority of your news and information but in today’s world journalism become digitalized and biased. We all know that the purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments. However, it often encounters bias in disseminating information.
Journalism employs particular techniques to obtain and evaluate information with the goal of prioritizing the welfare of the public. In other words, journalism exists to serve the public interest, and journalists should regularly verify the facts they’re reporting on to ensure they’re true. Moreover, people can get information wherever they are and whenever they want via Google search, and with that they’ll find a lot of information. Nevertheless, the issues in journalism and to a journalists today have changed. They are no longer the undisputed authorities in the subjects they write about. Today’s readers might be more intelligent and knowledgeable than they are. Now they will go somewhere else if you don’t listen to them, work with them, work for them, and offer them what they need and desire. Additionally, they have a lot of different options. However, as a result of this, fake news is now an all too typical occurrence. As I red the report published by a certain Yvonne Chua of the University of the Philippines showed that Rappler was among the least trusted brands in Philippine news media. The report, published by the University of Oxford and the Reuters Institute showed Rappler alongside tabloid publications Abante and Bulgar at the bottom of a list of “most trusted” brands. People see this as bias because they think that journalism is no longer tell the facts, in the reason that journalists interpret information based on their values. They no longer serve the public. They serve special interest groups, and whoever is trying to direct the narrative.
Therefore, journalists should keep their opinions out of the news, and news outlets as a whole should not be making statements regarding on their view on the issues. Besides, they must always strive to report truthfully and as balanced as possible because their job is to report all sides, and interpret and explain issues to your readers so they can decide for themselves based on your reporting. Some argue that unbiased reporting is impossible, but I think it’s worth the effort to be as unbiased as humanly possible.
