the freedom of the media should be limited.agree or disagree?why?

Question

give reasons why you agree or disagree.thank you.

Answer 1

there's rules and laws, but there's always going to be people breaking them

Answer 2

I think that the printed media should be totally free to represent whatever political view they want, as is currently the case. This is because you should know, as a reader, where they are on the political spectrum, and can make a free choice.

The TV/radio media is in a different position, because it is a more powerful media, it is much more invasive, and it can use subtle means to indoctrinate/manipulate viewer opinion toward a particular social or political view. And it definitely does just that. This can be achieved through the use of bias in 'Soaps', news programmes, discussion programmes etc. The problem with the TV/radio media is that it is supposed to be impartial. Unfortunately, it isn't, it is mainly left of centre. The BBC in particular, has a positive obligation to be impartial, because it receives its funds via Government licence, but it admits that it is left of centre. How can it avoid being biased, when all/most of its job applications get placed in the Guardian (that well known left wing rag).

This current Government has moved the centre ground to the 'left' over its ten year tenure. This has given the impression, particularly amongst younger people, that the opinions churned out, particularly by the terrestrial TV channels, are centre ground, and not left of centre. Consequently, anyone giving opinions that would, not long ago, be regarded as centre ground common sense, are now derided, totally unfairly, as right wing. This rings true with subjects like 'immigration'.

The Tory party are often criticised for not being effective. Well, how can they be? When they are starved of the oxygen of publicity by the TV media. When they do appear, they are often given a very hard time. I notice that Tory politicians, who appear on "Question Time", are always heavily outgunned by the other panelists, and by the views represented in the audience. I also have great difficulty in seeing 'the chairman' as a truly impartial figure.

I would like to see complete freedom, but not if it is going to be abused as at present. There needs to be a mechanism for making sure that the employees/management/governing body of these organisations represent a spectrum of political views, and are not leaned on by the government to do its bidding. We have to remember, that as far as our children are concerned, the teaching profession has more than its fair share of left wingers within its ranks.

Currently, controls need to be put in place until such time as the full spectrum of political views can be expressed.

Answer 3

Freedom of the press is a very important part of a democracy. That freedom, like all freedoms, must also come with a very high level of responsibility to not take sides on issues. As soon as a public press medium starts biasing their news to favor their beliefs, then it is no longer the press. It is just another prpaganda machine for it's constituents.

When a so-called news media is caught lying or slandering, they should be exposed and prosecuted. Slander is against the law. Most of our main stream media outlets no longer practice these constraints anymore. They can get around it by just reporting anything someone says, whether truthful or not. They are then just another gossip rag.

Answer 4

Disagree vehemently!! Freedom of the media comes under the heading of "freedom of the press", one of the four basic freedoms guaranteed Americans under the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (freedom of speech, religion, press, and peaceable assembly). Those four freedoms make our country great, one to be envied by the people of the world who do not enjoy such liberties, the reasons why immigrants have flocked to our shores, very likely your ancestors and definitely mine. Right now in Russia, for instance, several members of the media/press who have written or spoken disparagingly in regard to the government or President Putin have been murdered! Our right to criticize or mock our political representatives or even our president is the manifestation of our fearlessness, a condition which is only possible in a country where our freedoms are guaranteed by a Constitution created by men who were geniuses. Citizens of the United States should be aware that to erode the freedoms of any group is to erode the freedoms of all of us; what we surrender thoughtlessly will shall never regain!

Answer 5

The media should be free but freedom comes with responsibilities. When the media leaks state or military secrets, those responsible should be jailed.

Answer 6

I believe in freedom of the press, unfortunately they do tend to over step the mark of honesty and respect when it comes to getting a story on the front page, the other side of the coin is if celebrities want to be famous they go looking for publicity and when they've got it start complaining of their invasion of privacy. As for me i could'nt give a monkeys aunt who's doing what with who and i do wonder who is interested in what these celebrities are doing, or is that more to do with the editor who thinks we are interested !

Answer 7

One of the bastions of freedom is The Freedom of The Press.
However, it's a pity that some editors seem unable to apply a little retraint. Obviously their only purpose in life is to sell papers.

Answer 8

Media should always be free.

Governments, whether Federal, Democratic or Autocratic, deal masses. And Media not only reaches Masses but its influence on masses is dramatic.

Governments fear MEDIA only, people's sound doesn't reach the highs of Corridors of Power.

Answer 9

If it's limited.
Might as well close shop in planet of apes.
Just let them write all the ghost stories.
From there we can sieve the info we want in planet of apes..
Sometime what they write we don't even notice the blunders and slip-ups with human errors until it pop up in their ghost stories.
From there we can trace the faults and solve the misery of living human kind in planet of apes.
Since living human kind is not the master of everythings in life.
They help in hi-lighting the mess we created in planet of apes.
Look around how those shut them up in planet of apes.
With time the mess on the blunders and slip-ups with human errors broke out into the streets causing more damage to the public in own backyards in planet of apes.
So it wise to let them beat the tin cans without hurting the public in the streets in planet of apes.

Answer 10

Disagree-there should be no limits on what they can print.

The government must not be allowed to use that to keep secrets from the public.

Answer 11

A Free and open Media is part of what America is all About.......