The BBC also has to be objective when
telling factual news and stories due to the BBC being required to be impartial
and only deliver the facts to the audience without the opinions of the
reporters/people working at the BBC if this were to happen then the BBC would
not be impartial and objective but would be subjective. Objectivity is when
reporters tell the news that is happening but only base their conclusion on
facts rather than their own opinions. A quote to support this is Steven Maras (2013) “Objectivity is the
reporting of reality, of facts, as nearly as they can be obtained without the
injection of prejudice and personal opinion”. This quote shows that
objectivity is reporting on facts and reality without reporters being
subjective (Bringing in their own personal opinions) and coming to a conclusion
based on facts and not opinions. An example from the BBC which shows
objectivity is a programme called ‘Newsnight’, Newsnight is a current affairs
programme which reports on news which is happening in the UK. From what I can
see from analysing this programme is that the beginning of the programme the
reporter says a point but then follows up with some factual information and
uses evidence to report what is happening, this happens throughout the show.
During the show we hear a voiceover and several different interviews which are
always objective and impartial towards the subject, I also saw that when the
interviewees answered the questions being asked by the reporter, the reporter
never voiced his opinion he only talked about the factual information when
coming to a conclusion. From watching Newsnight I believe that the BBC when
reporting are objective as they always use facts and evidence to create their
conclusion.
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