No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab
Spreading the truth is certainly not the first commitment of the news system. The news is supposed to tell us accurately about the world beyond our view, but what it does is to give a distorted account of the world beyond our view. Why is this the case? Why is truth least uppermost in the selection...
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| description | Spreading the truth is certainly not the first commitment of the news system. The news is supposed to tell us accurately about the world beyond our view, but what it does is to give a distorted account of the world beyond our view. Why is this the case? Why is truth least uppermost in the selection of news stories? What kind of warp is there
to the news? What does the circulation of this sort of material do for the society it is supposed to serve and inform? What is the real function of the news? This paper will explore and discuss such questions. |
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| spelling | uitm-136662016-04-04T08:22:18Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/ No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab jmiw Shahab, Syed Alwi Truthfulness and falsehood Communication. Mass media Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting Spreading the truth is certainly not the first commitment of the news system. The news is supposed to tell us accurately about the world beyond our view, but what it does is to give a distorted account of the world beyond our view. Why is this the case? Why is truth least uppermost in the selection of news stories? What kind of warp is there to the news? What does the circulation of this sort of material do for the society it is supposed to serve and inform? What is the real function of the news? This paper will explore and discuss such questions. Centre for Media and Information Warfare Studies 2008 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/1/AJ_SYED%20ALWI%20SHAHAB%20JMIW%2008.pdf Shahab, Syed Alwi (2008) No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab. (2008) Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Media_and_Information_Warfare_=28JMIW=29.html>, 1. pp. 169-176. ISSN 1985-563X https://jmiw.uitm.edu.my/ |
| spellingShingle | Truthfulness and falsehood Communication. Mass media Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting Shahab, Syed Alwi No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title | No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title_full | No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title_fullStr | No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title_full_unstemmed | No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title_short | No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab |
| title_sort | no news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / syed alwi shahab |
| topic | Truthfulness and falsehood Communication. Mass media Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting |
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