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Critique of international news agencies

International news agencies are criticised on following grounds:-

They produce religious conflicts

Finally, international news agencies belong to such society as are action oriented,

individualisation, I- based and efficient. The effected developing societies are providence

oriented, gregarious V-based, and inefficient (well, most of them). There is a clash of

ideology which means the east and the west. The wars against Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin

Laden, Muammar Qaddafi, The Taliban, North Korea, Syria, Iran, and Ultra organisations

are to be viewed as wars of cultures. The cultures of East and West are totally at daggers

drawn with each others. Ironically, no international statesman comprehends this fact,

although elite social thinkers and mass communications researchers have insinuated to this

trend. It this trend was to continue, the world could soon fall into an abyss of lethal chaos.

Today, wars are beginning fought in every part of the world because there is no possibility ofstarting world war 3. These sporadic wars would continue through out this century. News and

information would be disseminated in all parts of the world by international agencies. Instead

of integrating the world through their content, they are helping the masses because adamant

on their respective stands. The leaders of these masses would be forced or persuaded to save

their perspective cultures. Full-fledged wars can not be fought by many nations. Hence,

guerrilla wars would be fought by them. In the modern world, information is everything. It

can change the course of history. A news agency is a potent weapon for winning a war. In the

initial stage it is a media war and later. It gets converted into a full scale combat.

Professional agencies do not care humanity

The nations of the west have advanced societies; they have some positive features to. They

view humans as humans, they believe in the tenets of democracy and human freedom. They

do not believe in the old taboos of cast, creed, colour and communalism in which, the nations

of the east so desperately believe. The news agencies of the west cover the news and events

of the east rational devotion. They do not hide facts if the targeted person, community, or

nation follows hackneyed culture or social norms. In the news, these deviations are

highlighted. Our readers might think that this exposure would help the developing nations of

LDCs remove their anomalies. However, this is not happening. Instead of improving their

socio-cultural norms, they are sticking to them with greater force. They also allege that their

cultures are being attacked or modified by the news content of the west., thus the positivefacts of news inadvertently, Western news agencies are exposing the world to the lacunae of

the societies of the east, but these societies are not willing to part with this lacunae. Instead,

they accuse the western news agencies and media of subverting their aeons-old cultures.

They present incomplete facts

It has been alleged that international news agencies do not give complete facts to their

clients. Moreover, such facts suit the interest of the owners of theses agencies or the nations

where they originated nearly 40-50 years ago.

They are biased

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These agencies do not cover news with an impartial viewpoint. Their reporters nurture bias

towards the subjects of Third World countries and poor backward people.

They destroy cultures and its customs

The west has to depend upon the markets of the world to grow. Unlike the nations of the

developing and least developed countries, the nations of the west are struggling to become

the commercial rulers of the world. For this purpose, they have to feed such information and

news to the global markets that would generate appropriate purchase responses from the

members of these poor or developing nations. The population of developed western countries

are small whereas those of the developing countries are large. Moreover, these countries have

improved (or are improving) their purchasing power in term of dollar value and quantity.

Thus, these nations are not small buyers by any norm. China and India are one of the fastest

growing economics of the world, the former developing at the rate of 10 per cent per annum

and the latter, at the rate of seven to eight per cent per annum. Obviously, the nations of the

West cannot ignore these vast markets. They would try to indulge in such process as wouldeffect cultural homogenisation in these nations. This would eventually motivate the buyers of

the developing nations to buy the products, services, and technologies of the advanced

nations of the west. In order to sell the products and services to any nation, the pull strategy

would work in much better manner than a push strategy. Thus, the nations of the west are

using wire services to feed news and information that would effect cultural homogenisation

and ultimately lead to increased sales of their products and services (in the developing

nations). Cultural homogenisation would be effected only if the news and information of the

world are presented to the targeted nations in such a manner that the masses of such nations

feels the need to buy the products and services of those nations from which, the news and

information flow in. therefore, this commercial machination of which, the global news

agencies are vital part, would ultimately make the developing nations and LDCs totally

dependent upon the rich advanced nations of the would. In fact, it has already happened in

many countries. Thus, the role of the wire services is becoming a part of the pull strategy of

the western business empires.