Anatomy of News Conception and Construction: How Journalists Pen and Paint the World

This research explored why news turns out the way it does - imprecise, chosen, manufactured and partial. Through analytical and interpretative methods, the investigation found out that however effectively, through professional skill, the news convinces us that it replicates reality, we have to keep in mind that it is only a version of reality, not all of reality; and that it is highly constructed because it can be selected, distorted and replicated. Therefore, the study concluded that it is important to understand that journalists, and by extension, the media, do not have a neutral position on any issue in spite of journalism's century-old claim and grandstanding about objective news reporting. Accordingly, among other things, it recommended that given the multiple definitions of news across regions of the world, journalists should practice the kind of journalism that is expected and necessary for their particular society.