Media transparency
Media transparency is a term used to describe the different ways of how and why information is transmitted.
The term is a special case of the transparent policy. As with the use in the policy, requires transparency and openness and accountability is a metaphorical extension of a term in optics: in a transparent object can be seen through.
Definition
In communication science media are transparent when:
- There are numerous, complementary, independent, and competitive (in the sense of a search for the best result) information
- As much as possible is known about the nature of the information collection, transmission, processing and dissemination
- The financing of media production is publicly available
Essentials, in individual cases, but not sufficient components of transparent media are documented and freely available sources, open meetings, disclosure of balance sheets, the Freedom of Information Act, budget reviews, audits, peer reviews, etc.
The aim is to prevent Structurally, among other things the development of superior knowledge (and its solidification ).
Examples
If an organization (corporation, government, NPO, etc.) keeps a meeting, the guidance to the public and the press is freely available at the following:
- Radio broadcasts
- Discussions on TV
- Reports in newspapers
- Entries in weblogs
A meeting is usually transparent, as there are fewer opportunities for the organization to abuse the system of information transfer for their own interests. This assumes that the organization has no media or that they do not otherwise affect the transmission of information.
Related Topics
- Media Manipulation: includes methods of excessive or improper interference in the media, funding sources, organizational or personal prejudices or other influence acquisitions.
- Privacy: contains the media attention partly anonymous or discrete information from, for example, military or judicial reasons. The privacy and transparency have their advantages respectively. The privacy can protect a news source of retribution, increase the number of scandalous revelations, increase national security and the like, but exaggerated privacy can lead to political corruption, statism and military dictatorship.
- Freedom of expression: if a censorship decree blocked a publication in the media, such as in media policy Silvio Berlusconi, where Berlusconi, for example in the case RaiOt after public criticism obtained a dismissal of the shipment to his media empire in the TV show RaiOt.
- Suppression of the opposition: when a powerful adversary attempts to the other side of silence.