Is the UK news media an arena pf equal competition and rational debate?
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参考答案:Hmmm. Your question can be a PhD thesis title. I have no intention of providing you an answer, but let's chat about analytical philosophy to help you formulate your own opinion.
In analytical philosophy, just answer 2 questions, and you will have the question. They questions are "what does it mean?" and "why is it?" Of course, you can add "what", "when", "who" and "where".
There are 3 key terms in your question: news media, equal and rational.
What is news media? In UK, does it mean newspaper, radio, television or even web news? They have different traditions, histories, resources available, technology and targetted markets. They are too different that it is a mission impossible to deduct a few principles to describe all of them inclusively. For example, in China, cctv is different from say Hunan tv. Putting them together is like comparing apples with oranges.
You have 2 options: refine the news media to major players, eg BBC or alternatively compare some local county media (usually newspaper or radio)with the major players, and then come up with a conclusion. In the latter, the conclusion may be, due to lack of resources and too small the local market, the minor league media do not play in a level ground of equal competition and rational debate.
The second question is what it means by equal. Sociologists after over 100 hundred years still cannot come up with consensus what equality is. Again you have to narrow your focus. Media are very sensitive with subsidy and privilege from the government, and if there is no such help from the government, you can conclude the field offers equal competition. One good example is cctv, which receives lots of subsidy and special privileges from the Beijing government. Would you say that's a fair competition? Apparently not.
The third is rational. What does rational mean? You have to define it. Rational may mean discussion, argument or debate with logic and reasons and is knowledge based. You can tell in Baidu there are lots of irrational debate of name calling, and labelling.
Now, you have to redefine the topic to for example, "are major news media in the UK a level playground without government/political interference and a intellectual process based on knowledge, logic and reasoning.
The next step will be collection of information/evidence to answer your question.
I think your professor wants you to learn the major principles of journalism. You can choose to adopt a comparative approach. The logic is there is no perfect or an ideal world of equal competition and rational debate. Everything is in a relative sense. For instance, when comparing media in the UK and in China, we can say the UK news media is an area of equal competition and rational debate.
Got it.
Sorry, I did it in a hurry. Not sure if you will benefit from my 2 cents.