Can You Trust News Organizations?
The “anonymous source” has been a
hallmark of the free press. The question
is can you trust a news organization or a source that is not willing to be
accountable by stating their name in public?
It is easy to be “brave” when you are anonymous, it is another thing to
do so publically.
I don’t believe a news organization
should be able to use unnamed sources.
Who is allowed to check if the news organization has “the truth.” It is
an internal self-policing system at this time.
Would you believe someone who wants
to be a source but not publically? If what you are saying is true, then stand
behind it. If you are leaking internal
discussions from your organization, and the topic is not criminal just
“newsworthy” then what kind of an employee are you? I think most leak information for their ego
and not for the greater good.
News organizations rarely admit they
were wrong if the information was not accurate.
If it is a paper you may see a “correction” buried within it. On TV it has to be a major foul up for the
organization to admit any wrong.
I fully support a free press. But I want an open one too.
No comments:
Post a Comment