Article from: The Australian
Title: Without Fear or Favour
Author: Miriam Cosic
Date: August 23, 3008
Link: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24225531-28737,00.html
This article dicusses a decline in quality journalism and uses the examples of Google News and Yahoo News to illustrate this point. These two sites do not hire reporters, editors or journalists to investigate news and present it to the public. Instead, these websites use specially designed software to scan for the most popular news stories and uploads them to their websites. These popular news stories are not checked for their credability and are often written or influenced by PR people or government agencies to benefit or promote particular members of society.
I find this idea quite disturbing as, throughout my studies, I have learnt that the media is supposed to be a watchdog for what is happening in society, not an advertising or propoganda medium. I feel that there is a place for people to share their views an opinions but the news is not this place, especially not when there is no distinction between what is supposed to be 'news' and what is 'opinion'.
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