Breaking news: Getting more information about
Coronavirus
(Fears, Rumours,
Nightmares: How our upscale society is dealing with the reality of coronavirus?)
Ahmedabad,
March 30, 2020: Breaking news is now more important than ever before especially
when people want to know the real-time information in form of authentic facts
and figure from the reliable source now matter whether it is coming from the
public, private or social media. When open Google search one can clearly see
the third category search i.e Get more information about Coronavirus, it says
that people search regular updates from across the world.
Breaking
news is like a media fascinated term that appeared 24x7 on TV news channels and
Digital News platforms from website to apps. This is time that one can feel the
difference between fake news and real news. Journalism is more craft than a
profession and to break news as breaking news required a news sense before
disseminating on the public domain.
Fears, rumours, nightmares, quarantine, social distancing, isolation and
staying home, these are the situation that our society and humanity is dealing
with the daily new reality show of COVID-19. Nothing to say about so-called
"Gurus" of Whatsapp University and other such Social Channels. We all
had this experience during the Coronavirus Outbreak. And yes, its side effects
- Sanitizers and Masks, Medicines, Vegetable getting run out every day and night.
What
are we doing? Probably nothing or the flip side is many things. We must behave with responsibility and never
follow any breaking news on Social Channel without fact-checking. Go with the
responsible media. Many a time that happens that we get misleading breaking
news from responsible media also because even they got some misinformation. So,
as a responsible citizen, we must follow the Government's official announcement
as breaking news in this turmoil situation.
Contributed by: Bharat
Thakkar, Business Mentor and Founder of Business Growth Technique Partners
Network (BGTPN) and Dr. Shashikant
Bhagat, Faculty, National Institute of Mass Communication and Journalism
(NIMCJ), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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