Is today's news what it should be?
Is today’s news a truthful account of the day’s events? Is it a blatant attempt to guide the reader’s reaction to keep interests high? Or do entertainment corporations trying to make a profit overrun today’s news? Should there be certain standards of journalism in news today? To answer these questions, the reader must understand the definition of news. Jack Fuller best defines news as “a report of what a news organization has recently learned about matters of some significance or interest to the specific community that news organization serves.” Journalism in today’s news is not the same as it was over half a century ago. The reader can see this in Jim Squires’ statement that journalism “even at its worst and most unfair… once had as its goal a quest for accuracy and perspective that would eventually provide truth.” Whereas news, itself, is best defined best defined by the Hutchinson Commission on freedom of the pres in 1947 as a “truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning.” So what has happened to journalism today? Journalism no longer seeks accuracy and fairness. There are many fallacies in the basis of today’s journalism. Jou
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Approximate Word count = 1092
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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