‘PUBLIC TOOL’: As the fourth estate, media should strive to be socially responsible by producing unbiased stories, a petition launched by students and lecturers said

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 01, 2019
By: Wu Po-hsuan  /  Staff reporter

An online petition calling for the control of false news reports and urging self-regulation by the media has garnered 765 signatures since its launch on Thursday.

The petition was launched by students and faculty at National Taiwan Normal University’s Graduate Institute of Mass Communication.

Institute student Hsiung Huan-chun (熊煌均), one of the petition’s organizers, said that producing and releasing false reports is not only unprofessional, but unethical.

Producing fake news amounts to “using a public tool to promote your own interests,” he said.    [FULL  STORY]