News hijacking

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If our mother - may God have mercy on her soul - if we told her surprising and unbelievable news, she would respond to us to confirm it with this phrase: I am afraid that you are kidnapping it. She means kidnapping the news. With this comment, she is doubting the news and waiting for what will make her believe it. Sometimes she is waiting for the news to be untrue, and this depends on the content of the news.

Hijacking the news - according to the mother’s words - is that a person hears “a piece of knowledge” and rushes to spread it in order to gain the status of a trusted source among family members.

In the era of advanced media and the importance of gaining the trust of the recipient, these media are keen on credibility and rely on modern methods and diverse sources to reach the news, what is behind the news, and what is before the news, while distinguishing between speed and haste. Speed ​​is an important professional requirement, while haste is a behavior that involves professional risk.

Hijacking news in the age of the media by professional means is a positive media skill if it is carried out in accordance with ethical principles that adhere to credibility and the search for truth.

The concept of positive hijacking here is that successful media does not wait for news to knock on its door, but rather searches for it from various sources, regardless of their location or nature. The important thing is that the source, if he is a reporter, is not one of those who hastily steal incomplete information or unconfirmed news in order to achieve a scoop. If this type of kidnapping is repeated, this negatively affects credibility because unconfirmed news is classified as a rumour.

Another type of news hijacking is the hijacking of news so that the truth does not appear, and this hijacking may last for a long time. Did you know that news of some events is hijacked for a long time or forever so that the truth does not appear, and history is full of events whose details and secrets are still unknown or hijacked?

Sometimes it happens that the news is stolen to the table for discussion and analysis, and then opinions multiply, and this is normal, but it is not normal for opinions or conclusions to be subject to subjective starting points. When each participant in the discussion tries to hijack the discussion to support his intellectual, political, or other orientations.

The latest type of hijacking is championed by what is called artificial intelligence or superintelligence - according to President Trump’s expression. This new hijacker does not content himself with hijacking the news, but rather hijacks it and hijacks jobs. He does not suffice with that and adds to it the invention of news and situations and the hijacking of minds.

Thus, a person finds himself forced to be good at swimming in the sea of ​​news until he reaches the shore of truth before he is exposed to the hijacking of the mind.