May 16--- social responsibility of the media?

Does the media and those who work in it have a responsibility to the consuming public?

Or is the media just a business like any other that pays lip service to responsibility?

Peter made an excellent point, that the medai has a far way to go.

The issues of truth needs to be at the top of any to do list.

FREEDOM is a must.

But others did feel that the meass media int he UAE was doing a good job and was not corrupted by the business cycle yet.

Big question, how does it really help to know what is going on anyway?

MEDIA WISE is an organization that has a view on this.

Social Responsibility and the Media Prepared by Mike Jempson, Director of The MediaWise Trust for the All-Party Social Responsibility Group House of Commons, 12 January 2006

Clearly this is a massive over simplification, but from the MO evidence she identified a crisis of public confidence in journalism “that has a financial impact on news media, as evidenced in the continuing decline of newspaper circulation and readership. But it also points to the apparent inability of mass media to serve their ideal role in a democratic society; that of creating an informed public.”



Thoughts?