'Page One' YouTube User Discussion

These are screen shots from a YouTube Trailer (Click here for the link). We are not actually looking at the trailer which is for an American Docu-Drama about a day at 'The New York Times'. We have focused upon the interesting comments made by YouTube users commenting on the role our journalists in our society, which is very relevant to our media product.

The comments above show the controversial debate at the heart of Media, and therefore News, publishers. There are the two conflicting views "Journalism is the cornerstone of democracy" writes Porterchas and advocates the idea of journalists "standing by their story", by extension dismissing the anonymity of Internet news sources.

However, in opposition it is pointed out that 'The New York Times' is "EXTREMELY biased" (commented by MrSuperiorBeing) thereby discrediting news items that they report because of its unreliability for impartial judgement.

Most interestingly it is the freedom of speech online which becomes the focus of the debate, with arabianknight86 who points out that "Wikileaks" was only necessary because journalists failed the public by not reporting news on the governments who were exposed to be covering up a number of indescrepancies. The implication is that journalism has become less about the 'freedom of speech' and delivering the truth to the public and more about business and political influence. This corruption is something which we have discussed as a group for our coursework and is the catalyst for the dystopian future we are in the process of creating.