What is the significance of the authenticity and representation of the truth in the media that you consume on a daily basis? What is the role of a live broadcast?
I have to say this topic accidentally corresponds with my EAP final research perfectly. In today’s media, I gradually find it more and more uncomfortable when looking through media platforms, no matter news report, WeChat moments, Weibo, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, or YouTube, Ins, etc. The intensionally designed scenes, camera languages, the pretending-to-be-true performance, as well as the editing skills for the same purpose, would make me think of the necessity of the authenticity of media. A live broadcast can do better in recording the original look of things. However, even a live broadcast could not certainly guarantee the authenticity and representation of the truth, cause I always feel no one could really find the TRUTH of every single aspect of an event out, and TRUTH sometimes can be different, or even self-contradictory when considered from different perspectives.