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Television News:
‘Watchdogs or Pitbulls? ...
To the general viewing audience, television news is an accurate and impartial medium that reports with fairness and balance. ... The media are meant to be our watchdogs; people that monitor the practices of society. But instead we are faced with pitbulls – the fierce breed of journalists, who will do absolutely anything for a good story to attract viewers. ... Television news is fastly becoming the air of a perverse side-show, where reporters are becoming the producers and directors of the show.
The media are to report and interpret the news with scrupulous honesty by striving to disclose all essential facts and by not suppressing relevant, available facts or distorting by wrong or improper emphasis. ... The media owe a duty of care to us when reporting the news, but instead the truth is compromised. ... Journalists are just meant to be disinterested bystanders, but instead we are faced with active participants in these news events.
Approximate Word count = 715
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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