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标题：IS THE MEDIA STILL REPORTING BENEVOLENTLY? QUESTIONING THE UNETHICAL MEDIA PRACTICES
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作者：Shriya Agarwal ; Namita Jain
期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：5
页码：5815-5821
DOI：10.9756/INTJECSE/V14I5.714
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Liberalization, Globalisation, Privatisation, and now Digitalisation have made life easy by providing access to all sorts of information at any given point in time. While making us informed it has also made us vulnerable as we are the mere consumer of information and we have somehow lost a critical understanding of the consumed information. Media houses are making us more vulnerable by providing personalized or customized news. With changing role of the media and with the growing media platforms, it has become important for each citizen of the nation to be updated with the type of news that is being provided on our doorsteps and which is authentic and which is fake. Every second we are bombarded with a good bunch of information and only a few are able to bifurcate between the actual news and fake news. The work of media has become more of a profit-earning business rather than the pure dissemination of information. It has no more remained to be a platform to freely exchange one’s views. The ethics in the media industry is gradually disappearing with time, with the coming up of various activities like paid news, fake news, media trial, sting operations, yellow journalism, etc. These activities have led the readers and the common men to lose faith in the working of the news industry, which is not good for the nation's development. In this research paper, the researcher will discuss the role and responsibilities of the fourth estate of our democracy, and the ethical practices the media houses are expected to comply with, following with a brief discussion about the various growing unethical practices in India due to which though the media houses are monetary growing but their sanctity is continuously deteriorating. The researcher will then focus on how increasing literacy and providing education to the masses can be an effective measure to check and monitor such practices. Lastly, the researcher seeks to analyse how educating the journalist and the other stakeholders involved in the process of dissemination of news be fruitful to cure these unethical activities and how the principles of self-regulation should be strictly implemented. For the purpose of research, the researcher seeks to rely on both primary and secondary data. The majority of the research will be based on secondary data like research articles and various reports.