Rights to our own news?

Who owns the news? To answer this question we first have to look at what is news. Is news anything that has happened? Or is it only when it impacts a larger number? What is important news? Is celebrity gossip news? It is important to define what news is because it will determine what effect it has on people. If the news is something that has a global impact then more people would want to hear it.

There are two possible owners of the news, the society who reads it and the people who broadcast it. People can argue either way but I think it is important to realize that they both interact with each other. If there was no one to read the news then they would not broadcast it. If we did not have people who broadcasted the news we would have been sheltered before the internet. The internet gives us a way to be able to report our own news.

The use of the word own is interesting; how can someone own something that happened to another person? Do we only own news about ourselves? We need to ask who controls/influences the news. The people who collect and display the news have biases and could contaminate the truth about the information being presented. Society has the power to boycott and ignore certain sources for news, giving them the power to choose which news we want to hear. This might result in biased sources as well but it also shapes each nation and community. Overall society has the impact on which news sources we rely on but we still rely on companies to give us our news. These companies have an overall say of what they put on their sites and newsfeeds. It is a debate that will always be fought until one side stops interacting with the other. Do the people who broadcast the news listen and believe that news? Do you research news if you don’t believe one source is true?