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Myth of Free Media and Fake News in the Post-truth Era reveals the story of fake news hysteria and myth of free media in the post-truth world order, starting from the question of whether there has really been a truth era.The book examines how the news media is battling for relevance in the age of Internet. It shows how the wave of media liberalization has weakened the basic premise of Libertarian Media Function Theory, which states that the media is the Fourth Estate that protects the citizens from abuse of power by the government. It analyses how excessive commercialization of the media and the commodification of news has changed journalism globally. The book recommends a new paradigm and explains how it can be used to transform news reporting from an adversarial model to a human-centric one.
Redefining Journalistic Ethics
Redefining Journalistic Ethics
Nepali journalist and former Asia-Pacific bureau chief of IPS news agency Kunda Dixit wrote in the introduction to his book Dateline Earth: Journalism as If the Planet Mattered:
Infotainment is a commodity, and today's news coverage reflects market forces and the desire of media moguls to rule the airwaves. The public service role of the media is being usurped by businesses for whom the definition of news is very simple: news has to sell, otherwise it is not news. It is not a coincidence that news businesses are being taken over by conglomerates that also own entertainment empires. (Dixit 1997: 7)
The essence of the ‘free media’ (watchdog) theory was that the media is a public service and private media owners ...
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