is media doing its work properly?
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I think Media is doing it work properly.
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CBS newsman Mike Wallace ended a speech with this quote from Jim Lehrer of MacNeil/Lehrer: “Do not tolerate lousy, arrogant snide journalism. Complain, and don’t watch those news programs, don’t read those newspapers, don’t listen to that program.”
Wallace gave the speech at the announcement of the Goldsmith Prize, for which he won a lifetime achievement award. Journalists increasingly regard their profession with apologies and mistrust. They are not alone. Public confidence in media organizations has seriously dropped throughout the years.
The 1996 Gallup poll of public confidence in major institutions revealed that 36 percent of Americans had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in television news. In 1979, 51 percent of Americans had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” confidence in newspapers, whereas this year it is at 32 percent.
But, is the media doing its job? Before this question can be answered, two terms must be defined. The first one is media. How do we define media? After Everette E. Dennis’ 1996 Silha Lecture on “How Liberal’ are the Media Anyway? The Continuing Conflict of Professional and Partisanship,” he answered questions and said the media is mistakenly seen as monolithic structure.
The media don’t have a set of common goals. The media should be seen as groups of independent people working separately for different organizations with different agendas. It is hard to generalize and make assumptions for all of them. However, in America it is an everyday occurrence for people to make blanket statements blaming the all-encompassing media for society’s ills.
How many times have you been in discussions and heard comments such as “the media exploit women” or “the media encourage violence”?
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