Journalism is a tumour and its seeping puss is slowly killing liberal democracy

Journalism is a tumour and its seeping puss is slowly killing liberal democracy

As a citizen of a democratic country , we depend too much in our newss , magazines , tabloids and all kinds of media for information mainly because almost everything is shown in it , we don 't even know whether it is true or not , but because this is our flow of society we believe in it . But isn 't it invading our privacy ? And our right to live in security

This is journalism the science of ruining or building lives . But

br primarily its purpose is to expose certain events , critical issues and mainly the lives of people , their private lives that they don 't want other people to know , the exaggerated tales and the gradual destruction of ones life . It is like showing your cards in a poker game without you knowing it , people taking advantage of it and using it against you

Look at the Valerie Plame scandal . After her career has been ruined by exposing her identity as a CIA agent , saying that she have leaked some information as an intelligence officer and making herself a public icon by showing herself in the front page of vanity fair other magazines and newss , professional journalists just took off the scene after the case have been dismissed instead of clearing their mistakes

Another example is the paparazzi , they make celebrity lives really difficult and even drive some of them to their deaths because of the stories that they fabricate , the pictures that they took , the private stories and pictures that shouldn 't be known by the public which creates an even more stress and pressure on them . Just like what happen to HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Diana 2C_Princess_of_Wales \t "_blank " \o "Diana , Princess of Wales " Princess Diana , who died because of a car accident in HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Paris " \t "_blank " \o "Paris " Paris HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /France " \t "_blank " \o "France France due to the never ending chase of the paparazzi

In the war between US and Iraq , the progress of the US was certain , the US was reluctant to stop the attacks though the Iraq parliament appealed for a month long cease of attack , what do the media do ! They ignored all the press releases of Iraq and launched a shock and Awe ' campaign to expose and insult the Iraq parliament , making the situation worse

As what Lt . Col . Oliver North said that the media won 't make them (military troops ) safe in the war that has been going on in Iraq , and he also said that it has become a weapon which attacks Iraq that supports the media 's claim that our democracy has attained its limits

Freedom in every little way has also its limitations , though we have equal rights and some believe that it 's the journalist right to do his job , I do also believe that freedom , our liberal rights meets its limits when we...