Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 53 views

    Objectivity in Journalism: Poor Coverage

    Uploaded by

    Urooj Mustafa
    The document discusses objectivity in journalism and some of the challenges faced by journalists in Pakistan. It states that journalists should aim to be objective by providing facts from both sides of a story so that audiences can make their own judgments. However, in Pakistan journalists face threats, censorship, and bias as media coverage has become politicized. There is also a need for better protection of journalists given the dangers they face in investigating stories that implicate the state. Overall, the document argues that objectivity in reporting is important to avoid spreading misinformation or hatred, but achieving true objectivity remains a challenge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Objectivity in Journalism: Poor Coverage

    Uploaded by

    Urooj Mustafa
    53 views3 pages
    The document discusses objectivity in journalism and some of the challenges faced by journalists in Pakistan. It states that journalists should aim to be objective by providing facts from both sides of a story so that audiences can make their own judgments. However, in Pakistan journalists face threats, censorship, and bias as media coverage has become politicized. There is also a need for better protection of journalists given the dangers they face in investigating stories that implicate the state. Overall, the document argues that objectivity in reporting is important to avoid spreading misinformation or hatred, but achieving true objectivity remains a challenge.

    Original Title

    OBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISM

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses objectivity in journalism and some of the challenges faced by journalists in Pakistan. It states that journalists should aim to be objective by providing facts from both sides of a story so that audiences can make their own judgments. However, in Pakistan journalists face threats, censorship, and bias as media coverage has become politicized. There is also a need for better protection of journalists given the dangers they face in investigating stories that implicate the state. Overall, the document argues that objectivity in reporting is important to avoid spreading misinformation or hatred, but achieving true objectivity remains a challenge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    53 views3 pages

    Objectivity in Journalism: Poor Coverage

    Uploaded by

    Urooj Mustafa
    The document discusses objectivity in journalism and some of the challenges faced by journalists in Pakistan. It states that journalists should aim to be objective by providing facts from both sides of a story so that audiences can make their own judgments. However, in Pakistan journalists face threats, censorship, and bias as media coverage has become politicized. There is also a need for better protection of journalists given the dangers they face in investigating stories that implicate the state. Overall, the document argues that objectivity in reporting is important to avoid spreading misinformation or hatred, but achieving true objectivity remains a challenge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 3

    OBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISM

    Objectivity in Journalism refers to factuality and fairness. The aim of objectivity in journalism
    is to let audience make up their own mind about something by providing the citizens the
    information which will be beneficial for them, from which they can make the best decisions for
    themselves, their societies and for their government. The journalist should only state the facts
    that are there. Journalist shouldn’t be on any side of the argument. He should provide us with
    correct and truthful information rather than letting us know only the side which he wants us to
    know; should provide us with both sides of story. What the people don’t like while seeing any
    news is confusion. People don’t want the obscurity and complexity which is being too common
    and having these days. When someone owns a news channel and knows both sides of story but
    still leaves people confused, doesn’t achieve anything out of it. In much easier words, they are
    supposed to be watchdogs. Like we all know how news media is playing a vital role by keeping
    us informed about what is going on in our country and around the world. Meanwhile reporting
    about politics, it gets a little bit complex. The journalists should not get biased in their approach
    to work. Though there was a time when Pakistani journalists were not biased. They were
    unbiased; used to do their work fairly.

    POOR COVERAGE:-
    There are many people who are at loss because of poor coverage. Like a veteran political
    worker who has been loyal to PML-N his entire life carried out plenty of rallies that weren’t
    given the coverage. Because of that he is at loss. This tells how biased it has become. And
    unnecessary coverage to events has become a trend now. Distortion of media has become a
    common practice. These are some flaws which are destroying its image.

    DANGER FOR JOURNALISTS:-


    Human rights states that many journalists have been killed in recent years than any other
    country. Pakistan ranks the deadliest country in the world for journalists. Those journalists who
    do end up investigating stories and implicate the state are often allegedly intimidated by either
    official security forces or militant groups. Here in Pakistan journalists receives plenty of threats,
    face propaganda, coercion and target killings. There is a great need of providing better security
    for journalists.
    SPREADING HATRED:-
    Aside from all of the things, what journalists also do is spew hatred. By spreading wrong
    information or the facts that they want us to know and don’t tell all the facts that they have
    gathered can really create bad blood in a plethora of things.

    As the time is passing by there are much technology coming but newspaper hasn’t lost its
    regard. The time when people would read newspaper is still here even though it’s a bit less.
    Newspaper was the only that shouldn’t be stopped reading and would never in my opinion.
    There is some news which we get to know, and that doesn’t look like that the journalist is on
    one side of the party.

    There are some cases in which the journalists tried to hide the facts and doesn’t tell the whole
    news but still it managed to come out.

    This happens a lot in politics. Like, three televisions channels- Abbtak news, 24 news and Capital
    TV saw their transmission abruptly suspended after covering a press conference by opposition
    politician Maryam Nawaz and the authorities says that these three channels were unavailable
    because of ‘technical issues’. The news channels were put of air reportedly on the orders of
    Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). Maryam, who is the daughter of
    former Prime Minister Nawaz Shariff who was controversially removed from his position in
    2017 and served a jail sentence for corruption, alleged in the press conference that she had the
    evidence of the judge who jailed her father had done so under pressure. In less then a week,
    Maryam Nawaz was called for an interview on Hum News, but that live interview was forcefully
    stopped after a few minutes into the transmission, according to the journalist Nadeem Malik
    who was conducting the interview. Not the information ministry, not the information minister,
    no one could tell why the interview was taken off air after it was run. Just after the interview
    was aired, Hum News tweeted, "Hum News believes in a free and responsible media. Protecting
    freedom of expression is one of our core values. At the same time, we stand for the respect and
    dignity of the judiciary in line with our ethical values and the Constitution." Maryam then
    termed this incident as ‘unbelievable fascism’. Just after all these interviews of Maryam Nawaz,
    Imran Khan’s administration vowed to block any media coverage whoever interviewed the ones
    who are under trial. But some says that it was the PML-N who removed this not because of
    technical issues which they claimed. Though the journalists do know some of the things but
    everything is so under controlled now that it always ends up leaving us confused.

    Before reporting us anything, the journalist should gather up facts from the both sides and in
    my opinion, they should not give their opinion because while giving his own opinion he is
    already on one side of the story, so by giving his opinion he will be mostly telling one side of the
    story which he believes is right. Hence what I believe is he should keep his opinion aside and
    just state both sides of the story, it is our job to think what we believe is accurate or wrong.
    Aside from all of these things, the objectivity in newspapers is completely important otherwise
    it can lead to some disturbing things as well. There can be a dangerous climate, unhealthy war
    ratings could get high. Pakistan’s media needs a code conduct as Pakistan’s media landscape
    has overly exploded over the last decade.

    IMAMA MUSTAFA

    BSMS 1A 2015114

    You might also like