Recently, there was a phone scandal regarding the chief executive officer of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch. The then editor of The News of the World, Rebekah Brooks helped Rupert Murdoch to bring The News of the World to fame. But now the truth is out. The reason why The News of the World was brought to fame was becuase Rebekah Brooks carried out phone hacking on royals and celebrities, even on murderers to get as much information as possible out of them. But the worst thing was, now everyone can become a phone hacking victim.
I feel that the news media should partly be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news. Indeed, the news media did not care about the feelings of others and tried to use despicable means such as phone hacking just to get the juicy news out of them and let their newspapers sell well. But this is not the way to succeed in selling newspapers. They are being selfish. To get a big profit, they invaded others' privacy and this makes them feel vulnerable and scared because the things they do in their daily lives are being known by others and they may get exposed anytime.
But all the fault should not be blamed entirely on the news media. The people who first started the phone scandals should be blamed too. If not for their wrongdoings, why would the news media be bothered to know more about their daily life? The news media are actually also doing their part because by publishing their unruly acts on news papers, the people who were involved would feel ashamed and learn their lesson. So all in all, both the news media and the people who started the scandals are to be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news.
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Hi, Jerome. I am Wei Hng. I agree with you that the people must be responsible for their wrongdoings, but somehow they are parts of their own privacy. News Media has no privilege to stalk them and get those sensational news without prior permission by hacking into the victims' phones. I think that government should also be blamed for this unhealthy paparazzi. The government is supposed to make the rule strict so that news media will not be daring to do so. It is also a wrongdoing for the news media to hack into others' phones.
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Hi i am Colin. Personally, i feel that i agree with you that the news media should be blamed because of the heated competitions between companies and thus, leading to some using despicable methods to gain more readers.
ReplyDeleteHowever, i do not agree with you that the news media should not be blamed fully. They have the choice to publish things like these, especially when they are private stuffs of public figures. If they do not have the bad intention too, they would not post it. Thus, they should be fully blamed since the information is there for them but it is totally up to them to post it or not.