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Rupert Murdoch phone scandal

The news media should be blamed for the unhealthy paparazzi culture and going to the extremes for sensational news. How far do you agree?


According to the law, besides the use of hacking, the news media has done nothing wrong at all. By the way, why can't the news media report anything as they want? The news media is just doing their job, and without these exciting and 'juicy' news, the public may lose interest in reading and would affect its survival. We know the a fierce competition is happening on between news corporations and without these 'juicy' news, it may lead to a downfall of the news corporation. Thus we see that to an extent, the news corporation is being 'forced' to report such scandals to ensure its survivability. Further, more, the public definitely have the right to know what is happening around them and the news corporation is just doing their job to enable the public to know what is happening. Thus after all, the news corporation is just doing their job and according to the law, they have done nothing wrong (besides hacking).

 However, morally speaking, I totally agree that the news corporation should be ultimately blamed for such unhealthy paparazzi culture. If you are the family member of the victim, what would you feel? It is already very sad for the husband being murdered, but still, no consolation, no encouragement, but only further insult are given to the family member by the news corporation. Thus we sees the selfishness of the 'news of the world', only care about their own benefit and does not matter how hard it could injured the people in relationship to the victim. Further more, the use of hacking is already offences the law in the first place. Yet, it is used to make fun and insult others. All of these only shows the inconsideration and selfishness of 'news of the world'.

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  1. Ownmemoneyty
    August 19, 2011 at 6:23 AM

    Hi i am colin and i agree with you that the "news corporation should be ultimately blamed for such unhealthy paparazzi culture" since they are only caring for themselves, their sales but they are actually doing harm to the people involved.

    However, i do not agree with that the news media should not be blamed for the cases like phone hacking. It is the competitions in the news media industry that caused the corporations to use despicable measures to gain more readers. Thus, the news media should be blamed.

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