No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Shahab, Syed Alwi
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: CMIWS and UiTM Press 2008
• الموضوعات: Truthfulness and falsehood; Communication. Mass media; Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/1/AJ_SYED%20ALWI%20SHAHAB%20JMIW%2008.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/; https://jmiw.uitm.edu.my/

Spreading the truth is certainly not the first commitment of the news system. The news is supposed to tell us accurately about the world beyond our view, but what it does is to give a distorted account of the world beyond our view. Why is this the case? Why is truth least uppermost in the selection...