Lazy Journalism
What effect does it have on people's perceptions?
When we hear word journalism, the most common thing that comes to our mind is news. We trust the news we get from different sources be it social media, news channels in TV or newspaper. We trust every word we listen or read from them. So, it is not wrong to say that these sources of information play a huge role in shaping the mindset of people. Whenever we hear some information, we take it to our mind and make perception according to the information provided.
Recently we heard the news of a new variant emerging in a country and the first thing that came to my mind was “This country is unsafe now”. Now it may be true but it’s not complete information. This is where the lazy nature of journalist jumps in when they give us the latest news but not complete news. After hearing such we form perceptions and not knowing the complete truth we may face some dangerous situations.
Now suppose you are in a park which has 8 gates each facing different regions, now suddenly you hear this news that a small area near a gate is unsafe for children because of its worsening condition but you don’t exactly know which one of the gates because the park has several gates. Some people may take precautions without even knowing the exact location but only few people, the rest of the people may not even bother to know the exact gate location because the information was mainly focusing on the gate area but it can be any one of the gates which is dangerous situation. Now in these types of conditions complete facts are so important for the safety of people but because of the laziness of the informer people thought that they were informing about the other gates.
Same like this situation, we are facing a recent problem of media spreading the news of a specific country is unsafe but not telling that how exactly the other few countries are safe or not and the public will also not bother to investigate because they trust these sources of information.
In this age of information, where everything is based on information the laziness of journalist can cost so much to us that we can’t even imagine loss we’ll face one day because of them. we get this incomplete information and we act according to that information.
It is a very huge mistake on your conscious part to just write any news mindlessly because it may be due to some very logical reasons of work over load, pressure or not being in the right state of mind and their but they should also consider the social duty they have is of great responsibility bear a huge responsibility that makes it difficult for them to loosen up. As the quotations of Shakespeare:
So, they should pay more attention to what headlines they are writing to attract the audience. Is it damaging their mental health or someone’s reputation? Because it may attract them an audience for a while an they may get more and more views but once someone’s reputation gets damage it will very difficult to recover it. We have also seen many cases of celebrities being a victim of false news or rumors that comes as a hot topic and headline for journalists.
For example, there was a scandal of Kim Seon Ho, a Korean actor, who had the scandal of forcing her ex-girlfriend to abort their child. When this news first came everyone started posting about this scandal every local news website was spreading this news. His whole career went down the drain and many of agencies backed out and cut off any relation of their agencies to him. But soon after this, when his career was in the lowest of its time, Dispatch ( a Korean news agency), stepped in and gave the exact facts with proofs of the whole case which saved his career and he survived this scandal and it was all because a news agency decided to publish the true facts.
Just because a news agency decided to speak truth with proper headlines, it saved someone’s life so this is how huge the impact of journalism is on our lives and our minds.
