The media has both a right
and a duty to report fully on terrorism in the interest of the public's
right to know and to open, informed debate about terrorism. To
harbor means to bring something or someone to safety. How can any media
do that with "terrorism"?. Media do not slant the news to
favor. Which is not untruthful reporting. Truthful reporting means reporting the facts about the subjects.
Likewise,
reporting of the facts illogical cause-effect
relationships is harmful for the same reason. Most media don't do that, in part so that their readers and advertisers will continue to
read them. Academics who write in professional journals are under the
scrutiny of their peers and not under advertising pressure. Finally,
it's hard for me to find a unbiased book,all the facts and logical
interpretations of them.
Reporting favorable or
unfavorable untruths about anything can potentially be useful in proper
context; it just confuses people and causes them to take erroneous
actions based on faulty information.
It's difficult for
ordinary people to get at the truth through the media, but most of us
have no alternative. If we are ambitious, all we can do is read a lot of
media, books and journals and do the best we can to get at the truth.
A
press, or media in general, if it remains somewhat objective is the
only way the people can see what is happening in the society, good and
bad. The more objective press (media), the better, because what one
press fails to report, a competitor will.
Even
after September 11, the Bush administration announced a variety of
actions designed to restrict information from reaching the public.
An even stronger USA Patriot Act, a draft of which was
obtained by the Center For Public Integrity, could
conceivably allow for the wiretapping of news operations, according to a
memo from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
So, Media can play an objective role in society and respect human security and freedom.
Press
freedom does not mean allowing the media to promote terrorism, violence
and destruction. Media can be more responsible toward the people and
the principle of freedom. In their daily work,
Journalists from around the world are sometimes exposed to the dangers
of terrorism and violence. Measures are needed to protect society
against terrorism.
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