No news is good news: what you see and what you don't get to see / Syed Alwi Shahab

• Main Author: Shahab, Syed Alwi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: CMIWS and UiTM Press 2008
• Subjects: Truthfulness and falsehood; Communication. Mass media; Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/1/AJ_SYED%20ALWI%20SHAHAB%20JMIW%2008.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13666/; https://jmiw.uitm.edu.my/

Spreading the truth is certainly not the first commitment of the news system. The news is supposed to tell us accurately about the world beyond our view, but what it does is to give a distorted account of the world beyond our view. Why is this the case? Why is truth least uppermost in the selection...