Media Ethics for Educating Masses and Mediatization of Society

Education is one of the three main functions of media. This function assumes utmost importance when media comes to play the role of watchdog in a mediatized society so that quality of democracy is achieved through protection of human liberties. In 2002, President Pervez Musharraf unlocked the potent...

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Autores principales:	Abid Zafar, Hassan Shahzad, Muhammad Zaman
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	International Islamic University Islamabad 2019
Materias:	Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/7cbef6b7794c4d5ea860cd15372732fc
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7cbef6b7794c4d5ea860cd15372732fc2021-12-03T06:24:59ZMedia Ethics for Educating Masses and Mediatization of Society2520-71562520-716410.36261/ijdeel.v4i1.479https://doaj.org/article/7cbef6b7794c4d5ea860cd15372732fc2019-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://irigs.iiu.edu.pk:64447/ojs/index.php/IJDEEL/article/view/479https://doaj.org/toc/2520-7156https://doaj.org/toc/2520-7164Education is one of the three main functions of media. This function assumes utmost importance when media comes to play the role of watchdog in a mediatized society so that quality of democracy is achieved through protection of human liberties. In 2002, President Pervez Musharraf unlocked the potential of electronic media by allowing private entrepreneurs to operate TV and Radio channels, which led to acceleration of the process of mediatization of politics. For the purpose of the study two main leading newspaper Daily Jang and The News have been selected. The researcher has critically evaluated these two newspapers from March, 2015 to July 2015. This research is critical descriptive in nature leading to an understanding of the value of professional ethics for media to perform function of educating the masses in recognizing their rights. It has found that private media ignore the function of educating the masses and has been engaged in proliferating distorted information in the society so much that masses find themselves in confusion about reality.Abid ZafarHassan ShahzadMuhammad ZamanInternational Islamic University IslamabadarticleTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENInternational Journal of Distance Education and E-Learning , Vol 4, Iss 1 (2019)
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description	Education is one of the three main functions of media. This function assumes utmost importance when media comes to play the role of watchdog in a mediatized society so that quality of democracy is achieved through protection of human liberties. In 2002, President Pervez Musharraf unlocked the potential of electronic media by allowing private entrepreneurs to operate TV and Radio channels, which led to acceleration of the process of mediatization of politics. For the purpose of the study two main leading newspaper Daily Jang and The News have been selected. The researcher has critically evaluated these two newspapers from March, 2015 to July 2015. This research is critical descriptive in nature leading to an understanding of the value of professional ethics for media to perform function of educating the masses in recognizing their rights. It has found that private media ignore the function of educating the masses and has been engaged in proliferating distorted information in the society so much that masses find themselves in confusion about reality.
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Media Ethics for Educating Masses and Mediatization of Society

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