The gatekeepers of news are journalists or news editors. Both work together to create stories that they are sure are appropriate. The gatekeepers are the ones who decide what to say, what quotes to use and generally what stories to use or not to use. As NBC newscaster Chet Huntley once declared, “News is what I decide news is.” I believe there are so many things missing in news because the gatekeepers strike certain stories are inappropriate when in fact, they may be very useful articles. A gatekeepers job is to “exercise news judgment, deciding what most deserves to be told and how.”
To me, I think all news should be told to the public. Certain people shouldn’t get to decide what story to tell and especially not how to tell it. All journalistic writing has a certain stance to it, whether positive or negative, nothing is ever fully objective in the media.
Investigative reporting reveals “new startling information that is often not told by official sources because they’d rather not share.” I believe investigative reporting is effective in a sense; however, going back to the idea of gatekeepers, how effective is it really? We could believe it’s effective because it seems so starting and so real; but is that really the full or truthful story? I don’t think we’ll ever be able to answer that question in journalism.
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