Gatekeeper and News Reporting Process in Social Media : the Important and Affect

Abstract

In the present the gatekeeper process is not important for the news reporting in social media. This is because news in social network needs to be distributed rapidly from people who can access the internet and have social media accounts, they can either be the reporter or not. The news that is publicized through the social media is not always checked, new media is a more exclusive attribute than traditional media which is easy, fast and more convenient to access. People can be the senders of the social media and easily declare their stories and opinions to public. Nowadays a lot of news that is circulated though society is a mixture of factual and nonfactual. This causes a violation of human right and human dignity of the person that is reported in the news. Accordingly, news that is publicized in social media has a risk of offending and going against media ethics. Furthermore, social media receivers have a tendencyto consume news interested in dramatic issue rather than core, important factual news