When we talk about the media, an image of a TV channel, radio or newspaper emerges in our mind and some vague or clear impressions also arise based on our familiarity or unfamiliarity with the current situation.
What’s the news? When an event occurs, its reporting is called news, in which all the available materials required for information must be present. Incomplete, unverified or doubtful information in any respect cannot be called news.
It is also said that the news should answer five Ws i-e-who, when, what, how and why, which you can call the questions of viewers and listeners regarding the information required for the news, however, social media is fast like wildfire.
Nowadays, the websites of many TV channels and even the live news do not have answers to all the questions, incomplete information is given the name of news and fake news is becoming very common which affects people’s lives.
Deliberate spreading of false information or news which are actually rumors, may be done by certain elements to promote their personal, group or political party interests, which all the public especially social media users need to be careful about today. Is.
Various political leaders also hire their agents to release news whose political incompetence can sometimes lead to big leaks. When a media representative asks such a political leader, did you make this statement? So they express indifference.
In such a situation, the media is forced to say that such and such news has turned out to be false or such and such a political figure has expressed indifference to his own statement or denied it. take
For example, a video recently went viral on social media showing an elderly woman claiming to be the mother of slain senior anchor Arshad Sharif and captioned “Mother’s tearful statement after Arshad Sharif’s martyrdom. ” Later it was found out that the lady was not the mother of Arshad Sharif.
A piece of news also spread that a girl died due to the polio vaccine in Quetta, but when this news was investigated, it was found that the said girl died not due to anti-polio drops but due to pneumonia. It was also said that Netflix would air a documentary on the Sharif family’s corruption, but this report also turned out to be false.
In order to stop the invasion of fake news, the journalist community must show more responsibility in performing their duties, while the social media users also have to understand the difference between a rumor spread by a user and confirmed news published on the media.
