Malik Sahib!
Nobody has any doubts on the education/qualification/information/patriotism of the journalists whether in the print or in the electronic media. Please consider the following questions and give me simple answers:
- Isn't it the duty of the media to educate the people on their basic rights?
- Isn't it the duty of the media todifferentiate truth from the falsehood.
- Isn't it the duty of the media toBe a watch-guard for the nation in this age of fourth generation warfare
- Isn't it the duty of the media toWarn the public beforehand about the dangers to the ideological front.
and so on......................
If the answer is no, then I stop here. If the answer is yes, then;
- On the basis of what standard metric they will make the decision of right or wrong.
- In Islam you either have something permissible or non permissible how will they decide.
- When you guide the people you guide them to some destination, what should be the destination to which the media should guide the masses?
Dear Bro, the metric should be divided in two categories,
1. Internal Affairs
The key objective or Destination of nation as u mentioned, should be to;
Educate people
positively about current affairs at every level and every sector of life.
Upgrade national Moral
Follow law of Mass communication
Also same ethics should be apply as for internal affairs
2. Foreign affairs.
Foreign news, inbound and outbound must be filtered according to specif criteria before publishing.
Islamic and National Image must be high proiority
Also same ethics should apply as in foreign affairs.
Now we come to second point.
Islam is not only name of halal and haram, but there are also laws, education, ethics, knowlege, history, science, communication ( I learned that the best communication is in Quran, better than business comunication, mass media etc) war and peace, internal and external affairs. so i think that there is so much guidence for media.
Third point is highly important and critical, Normally in persoanl life, in business and organizational level we have some objective, goals and missions. Its responsibility of Govt authorities to make a specific "destination" or objective for Media to follow.