Significant Efforts in Turkmenistan

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

An important yet under-discussed issue for our time is the media bias. Everyday free speech is broadcasted across the world but with underlying agendas of communication companies. Many broadcasts engage in the assaulting of political candidates or display of tragedies to prompt viewers to believe the media states the exact truth. However, a majority of people do not decipher the tone and mood of the channels and papers which secretly distribute the opinions of the news company rather than solely the news.

In today’s society, remaining connected and knowledgeable of current events and the newest trends is vital to staying ahead in business, education, and social standing. This information is supplied to everyone through the internet, newspapers, television, and radio. One can tune into stations such as CNN, NBC, Fox News, Al-Jazeera, and many others (“SQs of Media Outlets”). In order to meet the needs of viewers, readers, and listeners, the ideal media system would contain accurate, quick information, with a purely impartial view on the facts as they are known. However, this modern media system has not maintained an objective view, pushing opinionated and slanted reporting onto the population in order to create profit and gain customers. The exploitation of information media for personal gain has created a toxic and inaccurate present, constant in today’s society.

Broadcasters and journalists’ right to freedom of speech is restricted, because the government forces them to withhold information that is unfavorable to them or the other side of the story. This violates humans’ rights as the general public has the right to know the truth about the political, social and economic actions of the nation that they live in, rather than being deceived by their government of being tricked into doing things. The big issue with censorship is the fact that people of higher authorities start to use the word ‘censoring’, when in reality they are using propaganda to assure members of the public to be satisfied with governmental actions, and that the justified reasons for specific actions allow them to suppress the right to freedom of speech in such a small manner that it isn’t even considered violation. Governments use media to justify their actions by spreading the view that rights to freedom of speech need to be suppressed and violated for the ultimate protection of the population. For example, in the United States, after 9/11, the government justified their actions of spying into citizens’ emails and social activity, for the ultimate ‘national security’ of USA. Furthermore, to violate some basic human rights is to deny one of their fundamental rights, and dehumanize them. The denial of these rights has sprouted chaos in the population provoking citizens to be angry once realizing that they were

Where the right to freedom of expression extends to mediums including written or oral communications as well as the media, this right is not absolute. This article assists in assessing the several burdens placed on the media 2013-2014 and its impact on Australia’s status as a democracy placing high value on press autonomy. The article also discusses the restrictions effected by the recent decisions and actions of Australian politicians, judges and government agencies that affect media freedom. These include the issuing of the jailing of journalists, increased national security and surveillance power, coercion of journalists and politicians by public servants and the censorship of public informa¬tion. This assists in expressing the limitations of freedom of expression and the abuse of the power to enforce or invoke freedom of expression within Australia.

Today, a majority of the population relies on media for both local and international news. Media is always surrounding us, it consumes our everyday life, and is practically inevitable to escape. There are several different factors, such as politics and bias within the media. The media is a very powerful outlet that provides the public with a set perspective on certain groups and events throughout the world. “The media generally operates in ways that promote apathy, cynicism, and quiescence, rather than active citizenship and participation.”

Along with Professor Joesph Manzella, a colleague at Southern Connecticut University, Dr. Yacher has been watching Central Asia begin to come out of its totalitarian phase. Kyrgyzstan especially has made significant strides away from totalitarian journalism, in which the government is the final word on truth, and toward the Western method in which the media acts as a watchdog. Halfway between these two schemas, Kyrgyzstan does not neatly fit under any of the labels representing the different types of journalism. Instead, Kyrgyzstan, like Indonesia and Venezuela, is in a transitional phase, neither totalitarian nor

Throughout the ages there has always been to some extent some form of journalism. From World War I with the use of radio and poster, to the more recent Iraq war where were we used more outlets including the Internet. Though the means of acquiring this information can sometimes come at a cost. To what extent should journalist go to obtain the needed information to write such articles and to report on events? Some say that journalist may get in the way or they may place themselves at risk of injury or death. However, such reporting can cause people, on which it’s targeting, to sway in a particular direction. It is by this reporting that journalist combined with media can be a strong political tool to gain favor by guiding the information to support their agenda.

Journalism in America is one of the biggest and most important industries our country has. Usually it keeps one up to date with many things that are going on in society. However, recently America has faced a downfall in the reporting of foreign news. As Americans there is a need for an increased amount of foreign coverage because there are many worldly issues we must know about, news networks are beginning to focus only on the everyday life of Americans, and the internet (specifically, social media) is slowly taking away the reality and realness of international news.

The public relies on the media as a source for accurate information on current events and political happenings. However, if the information they are gaining from news networks and internet sources is false, then there is no point to the information being reported at all, and in fact is only decreasing people’s knowledge of the truth. The media is important to people’s livelihoods and helps our country to function successfully, for this reason they should only publish bias-free press. Political bias that is being portrayed as an accident and how reporters are abusing their voice, should be issues that are not taken

The two articles that I chose, Freedom of Press for Whom? And Diversity around a democratic core: The universal and the particular in journalism, the main ideas of the articles are to draw attention to how the public follows journalisms as well as politicians. Both of the articles discussed that media and journalism are a form of communication. Thus, they both provide information about news related topics to the public. This way the citizens would have a way to have a voice and participate in debates.

For example, in 1990, just a few months after a democratic government took office in Chile after 17 years of dictatorship, the in-depth TV news show, Informe Especial, broadcasted a very detailed story about human rights violations that has been rather well-known within human rights organizations, locally and internationally. However, it was the very first time that public broadcasting showed, fairly, on prime-time, the faces of the repression’s victims, demonstrates the patterns of state brutality, and editorialized about crimes against humanities. The report was full of

Overall, the environmental landscape for media in China has not considerably changed with regard to government control. Journalists and news organizations remain at risk of political or economic reprisal as well as criminal charges. Journalists and editors continue to respond to this environment by self-censoring their work. China’s news media, particularly newspapers, have become more market oriented, even as political controls remain in force. In July 2003, China reduced the state-run media presence, shutting down many state-owned local newspapers and eliminating mandatory subscriptions for peasants and government officials. The major state-owned news sources were maintained, while private media outlets expanded in number. Journalists face expanding market pressures to report on subjects of interest to their readers, which has led to an increasing danger from non-government sources. The government has failed to protect journalists from these threats, and may be complicit in some of them. In the absence of a strong rule of law, and

I was 18 when we moved to the United States from Cameroon in 2010. I had always known I wanted to be in journalism, yet had little knowledge of how the media worked or what being a journalist even entailed. I had a passion for telling stories, and zero experience or hope that I would someday be able to do so in a way that affects everyday people, and effects positive change. As far as I knew, journalism was the ruling government’s tool for communicating what it deemed fit for public knowledge, and stifling any information that remotely threatened the political status quo. Only in the following years would I come to grasp the power of media and communication, in a journey that has led me to this very moment.

The belief that journalism is in decline has triggered major alarms, because society needs an informational environment that is easily available to all citizens such as newspapers. There is a large body of journalist that suggests that if television has taken over from the press as our main source of news this may limit our capacity to learn about public affairs; newspapers are believed to be far more effective than television at conveying detailed information necessary to understand complex and detailed issues. There is also widespread concern that if journalism fails as a profession it will not be able to reach large sections of the community, particularly younger or less educated readers. This may reinforce a growing gap among citizens between the information that they receive.