An Unbiased News Line
Judy Ramsook
October 16, 2006
There are two sides to every incident, event or story. If most of us received a certain amount of money every time that line has been heard or spoken, some of us might be wealthy beyond our wildest dreams. It is sad, but sometimes, most of us just hear one side of an issue.
For example, some one close to you has just ended a romantic association with some one. Chances are, the version of the break up you will hear first is the one from the person closer to you. It might be a while before you hear the other person’s side of the story, if you hear it at all. When it comes to the matter of news reporting though, certain persons who are eagerly anticipating information about a certain event might not be receiving an unbiased news report.
It is known that some news programmes and major newspapers might not have the time and space to give detailed information about certain incidents.
So they focus on what they think you, members of the news hungry population is seeking; the information you will want. But what about the small portion of the population that might want to know both sides of the issue.
Say, for example your country is at war with another, but the soldier casualty and fatality information you receive only pertains to those soldiers from your country. What if you want to know how many of the enemy were wounded and or fatally injured also?
You might have to conduct your own research for such information because none of your news stations and or newspapers might give you information about that. They give you a biased amount of information about what concerns you; an account of the soldier fatality for your country.
It might be difficult to gather an audience for such an entity, but maybe what is needed in today’s world is an unbiased news line.
Or as the cliché goes, ‘just the facts, Jack.’ It might come as a surprise to some people in our midst, but some of us might want to hear both sides of the issue. The enemy death count and casualty count as well as that of the country that’s at war with them.
For nothing is as one sided as it may seem. Just like there are two sides to a coin, so are there two sides to every issue or story. News reporting needs to return to that time when it was unbiased, or what we probably need is an unbiased news line.
For example, some one close to you has just ended a romantic association with some one. Chances are, the version of the break up you will hear first is the one from the person closer to you. It might be a while before you hear the other person’s side of the story, if you hear it at all. When it comes to the matter of news reporting though, certain persons who are eagerly anticipating information about a certain event might not be receiving an unbiased news report.
It is known that some news programmes and major newspapers might not have the time and space to give detailed information about certain incidents.
So they focus on what they think you, members of the news hungry population is seeking; the information you will want. But what about the small portion of the population that might want to know both sides of the issue.
Say, for example your country is at war with another, but the soldier casualty and fatality information you receive only pertains to those soldiers from your country. What if you want to know how many of the enemy were wounded and or fatally injured also?
You might have to conduct your own research for such information because none of your news stations and or newspapers might give you information about that. They give you a biased amount of information about what concerns you; an account of the soldier fatality for your country.
It might be difficult to gather an audience for such an entity, but maybe what is needed in today’s world is an unbiased news line.
Or as the cliché goes, ‘just the facts, Jack.’ It might come as a surprise to some people in our midst, but some of us might want to hear both sides of the issue. The enemy death count and casualty count as well as that of the country that’s at war with them.
For nothing is as one sided as it may seem. Just like there are two sides to a coin, so are there two sides to every issue or story. News reporting needs to return to that time when it was unbiased, or what we probably need is an unbiased news line.
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