About the polarization of information

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The mission of journalists is to share and route the information about the things, what is done. And this is the problem with journalism. In a normal situation, journalists are working for some media house, what must earn its funding by selling the product. This causes the situation, that there is so much negative news in the media.

Information polarization means, that there are very much stories and data, but the data is filtered that it shows only one side of the thing. That causes the thing, that there is only one aspect, what is underlined in those stories, what gives the very dramatized view for something, what is happened.

Negative news sells better than positive and glad news. When we are looking for news, we are facing many stories about violence, and the reason, why that news is increasing the sale of the newspaper or news is, that people are worried about the people, who they know, and who might be harmed in those cases.

The equipment of violence are always interesting or do you know anybody, who is not interested in the weapons and police actions. And of course, military aircraft and equipment are always interesting, and interesting things are a good way to increase the sale of the news. But when we are thinking about negative news, we are not seeing the news about pollution, or another kind of things, if they are not somehow connected with some broken buildings or humanitarian catastrophes.

Interesting news is the key element for making good selling newspapers. And dramatic pictures are the thing, what makes sales for the newspaper, and this is, why we are reading stories, there wolf attacks and kills dogs, but we are not reading the news when the wolf eats the last member of some mammal species. When some species are losing from the Earth, that thing is not very dramatic.

The beast comes or some animal closes eyes, and one era in the history is ending. And those silent extinctions happen all the time on Earth. Animals, what have not even seen by humans are losing from our planet forever, and maybe the last Megalodon is just eaten by some other sea creatures. This is the way in nature. But those things are not been written in any newspapers.

We are not reading about cases, where some African state have been polluted very large areas by using PCB, and the pollution causes because of the handling of electronic garbage is defective. Those things are not interesting us, but that PCB is in someday on our saucer, because fish are eating this chemical, and it would transfer to the food. But this is not an interesting way to share information.

It's not just about the social media, it's about the limits of the speech

Statue of Johannes Gutenberg at Strasbourg
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In the trial against MV-lehti and Ilya Janitskyn, is the question about the right to write about thigs, what would be not tolerated in the old fashion media, and at the same time the court is metering the limits of the writings in social media. And at the same time would somebody looking for the decision about the writer of social media right to use the name "magazine" in their homepages.  But also we are facing the problem of the journalism, what is the very complicated thing.


Normally freedom of speech is meaning, that every person has right to make that kind of writings what he or she wants, but there would be no answer, what to do when if the opinion of the writer is against the opinion of the line of the magazine. And it is problematic because the journalist is in the similar relationship for the employer as the normal worker. So if the employer wants, the content of the text should follow the line of the magazine or media house.


But is the case, where the head journalist wants that the henchman changes the content against freedom of speech? And what to do, if some journalist would make the publications same time in the magazines like MV-lehti, what are actually the social media channels? Here we must also ask another question about the publications like MV-lehti, and that is very complicated: should that channel mention, that there is a "Facebook-style" channel, and would the persons, who own that channel also have the responsibility to moderate the writings, what are published in that media.


And what to do, if some journalist would write to those social media- magazines in their free time.  That means that nothing limits the journalists work when that person is not in the office. The big question is,  would that cause the divorcing if those writings are against the line of the workplace? Those are difficult questions, and there would not be right answers for this kind of things.

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