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标题：The Mass Media Reportage of Crimes and Terrorists Activities: The Nigerian Experience
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作者：Chika Asogwa ; John Iyere ; Chris Attah 等
期刊名称：Asian Culture and History
印刷版ISSN：1916-9655
电子版ISSN：1916-9663
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：175
DOI：10.5539/ach.v4n2p175
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：The new mass media technologies now make information processing and distribution more accessible to people globally. Marshall Mcluhan’s “global village” has given birth to a “global palour”. However, perpetrators of crimes now bask on the philosophy of communication media practitioners that people have the right to know what is happening within and outside their environment. This stance is rapidly dismantling, in an amazing fashion, the hitherto accorded respect for media ethics. Neil Postman, a New York media analyst, describes the creator of technology as the list judge of its consequences, especially with regards to the technology of the media. True, every communication medium is potent with the possibility of occasioning other consequences not directly intended by it. This paper, therefore, attempts to bring to the fore the way communication media are inadvertently promoting crimes and terrorist activities globally. It is the stand of this paper that a global overhaul of mass communication media is needed for balance reportage that would bring about global and meaningful developments of human and material resources under an atmosphere of peace and mutual tolerance.