We have so many news channels in India.
Few of them are showing fake news. Many of them are showing real issues. These news channels are in the field of news but looks like they do not even realise how to present some news/video to a mass audience. They even don't realise what does a news mean to people.
Note that in India, social media has reached to almost every one whether he is well educated or he is very very less qualified.
e.g. if any bad incident happened on 30th Jan 2022 and that news was shown on the news channels on the same day that is 30th Jan 2022. Upto here it is fine. Audience is watching the news and understanding that it happened today itself.
But remember it is a era of social media. All the videos are recorded and are available on social media. Even many youtube channels use the clip of the recorded video from TV channels.
Many youtube channels are subscribed by many people who are less educated.
For example, if some youtube channel shows the same video clip after 6 months wherein some group of people is beating others so the viewers may think that it is happening today only and this video is a latest news.
From this image you can not estimate the real reporting date time of this news. "Seedhe varanasi se sabse badi padtaal" but no idea when did this happen?
Even if the person is well educated he might think that this news is a latest news and not a old one. Lesser intelligent viewers can not even think that it is an old news video, 99% think that it is a latest news video. It takes a lot of presence of mind to think that it is an old video. It may spread hate and negativity in the people.
So each news channel must show following in each of their telecast till the program ends:
- Reporting date time
- Reporting location
- Current date time.
Without displaying these things, news are creating nuisance.
On the screen and recorded video, date time and location of that news must be mentioned. In this was we can regulate the fake/mischievous news.