JOURNAL OF MASS COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Online ISSN : 2432-0838
Print ISSN : 1341-1306
ISSN-L : 1341-1306
Needed Urgently! Journalists with Courage and a Mind of Their Own(<AN AGE OF TRANSFORMATION AND JOURNALISTIC AWARENESS>)
Kazuo YOKOKAWA
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1996 Volume 48 Pages 86-101,285

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Journalists have changed. They are losing their instinct for the real problem, their willingness to criticise authority and their sensitivity for human rights. Gone is their concern for quality or being unique : speed alone is their measure. Hence the excessive competition. Further, mass media that rely on the Correspondents' Club system can easily become an organ of the authorities. The future of the mass media depends on the universities' ability to raise up journalists with an acute sensitivity for human rights and the courage to fight for them.
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© 1996 Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication
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