Ethical Reporting on the Decline...
Recently I read a copy of a newspaper from a local Community College. I was struck in a negative way by the front cover story about the President of the college. This person apparently is leaving the post of president, and searching for a position elsewhere. I am not familiar with the pros and cons of this persons leadership capabilities, however, this person is vilified in the coverage in this student newspaper.
What has happened to ethical reporting? There are always two sides at least to every story. This front page article presents a very one-sided viewpoint. I was disappointed in the lack of fair and ethical reporting. It seems that certain people really don't like the president of this college, but no one is all bad. Certainly this person has done something good during his/her time as college president. There was no hint or mention of any positives whatsoever in the article.
This type of article gives me cause for concern in a regular newspaper, but even more so when it comes from student journalists who are supposedly learning how to be good, fair reporters. Where is the student supervision of these budding journalists? Could we aspire to higher goals than denigrating another persons character and abilities? This type of "reporting" causes me to disregard everything that was said in the article as either partially or wholly false or fabricated. I hope others who read this article do the same.
~Kathy~
Interesting Perspective Kathy.
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out that this article above fails to mention that Ethical and Non Biased Reporting maybe on the rise. There is two sides to every story, including this one. For this post above, there should also be an example of how both sides of an issue where presented, thus non-biased reporting is on the rise.
Let’s try to consider ALL the fact, ALL the newspaper articles, and ALL news sources before we blatantly declare that unbiased ethical reporting is on the “DECLINE”.
The President of what school is this? I never heard of it!!!