RE: Irony of libertarian theory, critics of gatekeeping rights of mass media and the government.
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‘this has allowed mass media to operates has watchdog’ correction here , has should be as.
Well… you have given the comprehensive thesis and background on this.
I say, journalism… covering facual news is their job. But from where I am, that’s India, true journalism is difficult to do.
Because Govt. troubles them, arrests them… only on youtube got independent journalism here…TV media is brought by Government… its mountpiece of Govt. and spreads false messages and spread hatered too.
It’s not very easy to be a journalist, there is risk to person’s life, lots of threats and hate messages… murder threats, rape threats… its horrible.
So… that’s what.
I am ok with gatekeeping some things that may harm like instigate violence, harm sentiments of people… but that news will be very small .. most of the news stories will be of a kind that the public has the right to know about – from Government policies, actions, inactions, people’s protest, expert opininons on economy, plight of people here and there…
It’s all good. It’s a duty of journalists to also, build proper ideas into people… mature and responsible journalism.
For me independent journalism is very important, and I have enough maturity to infer things, understand, interpret and not instigate tension… and there are many like me… but I understand some things need to be gatekept…
But I am sure journalists mostly don’t report indepently, they have to work according rules of media organisation they work for. And that organisation may be funded by Corporate who is funding Government.
This is the case in my country and I have writing some articles mentoning it. Anyway…nice article!
I appreciate the correction.
The pattern of regulating content published by the mass media differs depending on the governmental policy existing in a country and most importantly the rate of corruption within the government.
It has not gotten that bad here in my country, we still have some independent journalist who have grown to the extent that they have established their own media entity. But the issue is, instead of such people to focus on matters of great concern to the citizen, they prefer to publish scandals involving celebrities, probably they are terrified of getting themselves involved in matters involving government officials.
The issue with gatekeeping is lack of professionalism not really maturity, based on recent happenings occuring around the world, how can we trust journalist to be objective with their stories when the need arises without allowing the above listed factors influence their news story.
I appreciate your thoughtful contribution, thanks for stopping by 🤗