Establishments that were in the news before the web came to exist create websites. They put the news on the websites. But they also put something else on the websites - editorials - but they seldom are specific about declaring one article to be a news article and another article an editorial or still yet another article to be opinion.
This makes for a very confusing landscape of types of articles, that only the reader - through dedication and concentration can tell the difference between an article that is news and an article that merely expresses a person's opinion like this blog expresses my opinion.
Clarity is a very important factor in terms of determining the validity of statements that you read. Without knowing the context of those statements (news or opinion) it becomes even harder to understand if this is just one person's angst spoken out to the world or if this is a statement backed up by facts that should be duely considered.
There are no regulations on labelling articles on the net - and there should be none. The news establishments should understand that they need to maintain the separation between news and opinion.
Abwägen
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment