the journalism industry
people really don’t like us plain and
last month our very own
commander-in-chief angrily tweeted this
the fake news media is not my enemy but
it’s the enemy of the American people as
you can see in this tweet he then
proceeded to tag the failing New York
Times NBC News
ABC CBS and of course CNN now I’m not
here to talk politics so please rest
those angry Facebook fingers instead I’m
here to discuss the importance of
understanding the different perspectives
of an argument specifically as it
relates to this issue caused by what I
believe to be unfair dealer utilization
of the media for whatever reason people
love to hate whether it’s because they
believe that the information being
reported on is false like fake news or
whether they think that the media is too
one-sided the popular opinion of the
industry as a whole is usually just not
a good one I guess it’s a good thing
that bias is in the eyes of the beholder
then there’s a perspective of the
businesses or in this case the media
companies themselves now as I’ve learned
in several finance classes here at
northcentral the most important thing to
any business is to ensure that its
revenues outweigh its expenses now my
father told me something once that would
stick with me forever
business is in business to stay in
business just like with these media
companies if you’re unhappy with the
perspective of these media companies you
don’t necessarily have a problem with
the media industry but instead a problem
with business last month’s a few of our
journalists on our Chronicle staff had
the opportunity to hear a keynote speech
by six-time Emmy Award winner Chris
burry of Al Jazeera’s America tonight
although he left us with a lot of
valuable information
there was one quote that our group
thought really encompassed the true
journalists perspective
he said if you spent any time in
newsrooms
you’d know that our bias is not as much
political but that we are biased in
and then there’s a perspective of the
journalist last September New York Times
columnist Francis Lam tweeted journalism
it’s a tough job within same pressure
and pretty crappy pay on the other hand
now I’ve been fortunate to work for my
student news organization in which money
matters far more and content matters far
less excuse me in which money matters
now like most news art major news
organizations including ours we have a
forum section whose main purpose is to
relate to the opinions of the general
public
the problem with relating to that
specific group in today’s day and age is
that there’s such a division among
perspectives that these media companies
feel almost as if they can’t win that
along with people not really
understanding the difference between
opinion and hard news is a problem that
the industry faces all the time so the
next time you find yourself quick to
label something from a major legitimate
news sources fake news ask yourself
first is this something I simply don’t
want to hear yes my perspective is in
defense of the media because of my
experience but since when is looking at
an issue from all perspectives such a
crazy thing to think about maybe if we
tried a little bit more of that we
wouldn’t need a war on the media now
please if you’re in the audience and you
have some sort of strong disagreement or
strong problem with what I’ve just said
just remember we simply have a different
opinion your agreement is much less
important than your understanding thank you god bless