Is there such thing as "UNBIASED REPORTING"?

What do we understand by the term ‘biased’?

 

Being biased is nothing but being prejudiced for or against someone or something. While biased can just mean having preference over one thing or another and thus it is synonymous with ‘prejudiced’, and the prejudice can be taken to the extreme level. Sometimes a person is so biased or leaning in one direction, that it’s hard to see the other position, creating unfairness in an argument or idea. Talking of unbiasedness, it is a term that should be coursing through the veins of every reporter, editor, or an anchor.

And therefore reporting implies that discovering of all facts and figures, selecting and presenting important facts and weaving a comprehensive story. Reporting is the main function in the world of journalism.

As we move forward, when we think of “UNBIASED REPORTING”, what’s the first that comes in our mind?

"UNBIASED NEWS”

What is “unbiased news”, new or noteworthy information of any recent event which doesn’t take any preferences? Well at least hypothetically speaking, unbiased news must be there and it is a realistic expectation as compared to what we presently see in India. I find Doordarshan to be the most unbiased of all. Though one can argue that Doordarshan may suppress the numbers of casualty or maybe pro-government in some independent news but barring some grey areas they have no business to do bashing one party over another. Public around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news should be unbiased especially in their coverage of political issues.

As to clear my point, is there any such thing as “UNBIASED REPORTING”?

Some protests or movements have more trouble than others in getting coverage.

WHAT DO WE WANT?
"UNBIASED REPORTING"!!

 This crisis of Indian media is writing a new history that recommends the death of journalism with constant manufactured opinion and no accountability. Media as propaganda is quite inherent to its functioning. News Anchors have become Judge and pass their judgment shamelessly without any ethical consideration.

The Indian public has been provided misinformation as a hard truth and they don’t know it as it has been done repeatedly.

So, therefore, it concludes that "UNBIASED REPORTING" should be there !!!

Unbiased reporting doesn't show prejudice between any positions which upholds the greater quality of a reporter. Many techniques are used to avoid bias reporting one is the disclosure of affiliations that may be considered as a possible conflict of interest and can cause the credibility of that news organization if not unbiased. This is especially apparent when a news organization is reporting a story with some relevancy to the news organization itself or to its own individuals or conglomerate.