Information and communication has become the most important thing for society. No modern society can resist it. Media is a great medium which deliver all the information in and outside the country, and press are the people who responsible to gather all the information needed to be delivered through the media. Media is a very powerful tool to inform, educate and also entertain society around the globe. Media has both freedom and responsibility in doing his job, sending a message to people. In a question of whether the freedom of media is threatened the stability of society, the answer is yes. The reasons are media is a business; press has the ability to stir people’s thought and the lack of responsibility of the press.
Media is a business empire. It makes them have their own agenda setting about creating a story of news which can increase their sales. The value of this press is the stories that most of people would like to hear, read or watch. In order to sell more of their news, they wrote the news which attracts society no matter how immoral it is, such as Lampu Merah Newspaper. Lampu Merah uses their freedom of press to show inappropriate pictures to the readers such as man’s brain spilled out from their head or other harsh picture. This picture might disturb many people, but for some society of low education, they could just imitate the criminality showed on the newspaper.
As it is mention above, no modern societies could resist information. The world is consuming and depending on media now in order to be updated. People believe what media said. Press has the power to stir people’s thoughts. They could make the society to think as they want them to think. However, each press on the media has their own style and point of view on reporting the same news now. They are free to express their opinion. Therefore, pro and contra are very possible to happen because one news is reported with different perception. The society might be divided on the pro or the contra. Instead of that, a crime would happen because the contradiction and conflict between the two sides.
Press also has their freedom and responsibility in doing their job. What we can see now, press is more into their freedom. Take example from Indonesian Press. The change of the government, also affect the media regulation. Nowadays, there are many media; printed and electronic, in Indonesia. This freedom to raise their voice and opinion makes them forget about the true function of media which are to inform, educate and entertain people, which is the responsibility of media. Press is only inform all occasion but forgetting the aftermath might happened, for example press is writing much about sex (which interest most people), but mostly forget to say something about the dangers of it such as AIDS.
The conclusion of all is that nowadays, the freedom of press needs to be suppressed by putting more responsibility on to it. The freedom without responsibility is as dangers as people ask for only their right, not the obligation. How is it able to threaten the stability of society? The freedom to write what they want without giving any limits could possibly offense some other people with different point of view, which might cause the contradiction. In this term, society has to be clever in order to choose overload information to maintain the stability of society.
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