Ethics in Media Editing
Ethics in Media Editing
Becoming a media editor had always been a dream job for me where it has come to my mind because I like how people work in media behind the scenes and especially those who pick up carefully what information to be included, what to be excluded and what to be edited but this involves many things in considerations like facts and truth that should be delivered to the audience which makes it hard for being an editor for many reasons like having job safety in one side and credibility in the other side which put the whole job under an ethical dilemma. The main role of media is broadcasting the news and publishing it as it is if it is directly sourced from the media channel but if the media is depending on another source then it has a big responsibility to confirm the credibility of the source. Sometimes some media channels broadcast news in different way and though they know the truth but they tend to change it in sometime because the ideology of the person whom news is about is different from the ideology of the media mean. If that news are in favor of the person it is about and the media has different ideology then they tend to make it appear as not real or not confirmed and in case it is not good news but the person is ideologically in harmony with the media then they do their best to make it appear as not real.
Generally such things happen in media where ethics are no longer involved in editing the news and confirming their credibility. The world has become a global village where the concepts that regulated the humanitarian relationships became suspicious and all concepts are changing according to certain political beliefs and apart from reality. Media broadcast hundred of news everyday and people listen and see different stories. All concepts are changing but the concept of ethics in editing is changing in a dramatic way. In these days we see what happens in Syria for example; if we listen to the Syrian Official Media we see that the government is the victim and if we see other media we see that the government is the gladiator. In both cases there is no ethics because the real victim which is the Syrian people is not considered in both supporting and opposing media.
It is very important when getting certain news to edit it in the proper way where first we have to understand it and look at the reasons behind it then to see its quality and its relativity to the person or event it is about and its limit of danger and then to whom we have to broadcast the news and how to deal with it in the proper way. Editing the news is a big responsibility because it involves credibility and since media play an important role in developing or devastating societies then they have to be aware about their role and to be honest with their readers and spectators and be