Role of Press & Media during the pandemic

Media and press play a very important role in the community. As people are completely dependent on the press to understand the worldwide incidents. Moez Chakchouk, Assistant Director-General for Communication & Information, UNESCO declared that press independence is now more powerful than ever and assembled on all Member States to guarantee that journalists can communicate on COVID-19 without interruption. During a health emergency or Pandemic, We understand the significance of scientific and reliable broadcasting. Reporters out there are preparing an excellent job in advising people with the opposing influences of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are even endangering their lives in the completion of the method. 

The press and media helping the ordinary people in the following way:

1. Addressing people to be informed of the COVID-19 manifestations and precautionary divisions to be taken.
2. Increasing the influence of social distancing and quarantine to decrease the impact of the pandemic.
3. Spreading knowledge about practical procedures to help somebody in administering with social and physical distancing
4. Addressing people conversant with the procedures and arrangements of the administration.
5. Implementing automatic updates of crises across the globe and outcomes of cases getting increased.
6. General economic circumstances due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Demand for Management of media/ journalists during COVID-19 –

Without high ethical ideals, a newspaper is not only stripped of its splendid possibilities for public service but may become a public danger to the community- Joseph Pulitzer

The necessary right of independence of the journalists is also directed to certain cognitive limitations. In this digital time, due to technological improvements, misinformation gets published within a portion of seconds. 

Therefore it is important to curb the freedom which residents are holding under Article 19(1)(a), at times, to resist the range of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. In the modern-day context, characters need to filter out the reliable sources of knowledge as relying upon false knowledge will generate a condition of panic, creating the condition even distressed. Before relying on a portion of knowledge concerning COVID-19,

These Verifications Must Be Done Before Believing Any News:

•  Attaining out the beginning covering the news 
• If those knowledge experts are dependable and straightforward. 
• If those knowledge specialists are trustworthy and credible 
• Whether that knowledge is communicated exactly