Samaher Saif Al Yazal
The researcher and former director of the Public Relations Department at the University of Bahrain, Ghassan Al -Shihabi, stressed that modern technologies “technology” positively affected the press and media industry, as it facilitated communication operations, and made the search for information easy compared to previous methods to draw information and data. Noting that the Bahraini press was characterized by severe competitiveness, with a lack of technological capabilities, and the descent to the field and listening to people was the means of the journalist to work, contrary to what is now, as the dependence on communication has become a distance, and this is the effect of technology on journalistic work, as the journalist has become a little confrontation with others. Al -Shihabi added that simple technology made the journalist more present to the street and adhesion to people, in addition to that The journalist at the time of simple technology was working with close relationships with the sources. On the importance of scrutiny in light of the prevailing “the chaos of information”, he said that “we live in the era of forgery of information”, but there are Arab and international platforms to verify the information before and after publication. Al -Shihabi pointed out that newspapers must establish specialized units to audit the information before publishing, to ensure the publication of what is true and reliable, and this is the responsibility of the newspapers and the media, explaining that there are advanced tools to reveal media misinformation in different materials, whether Written, audio and audio, in addition to the Arab platforms, including the Arab Network for Administration, which includes 40 Arab platforms for pre -publishing and beyond. Its audit units.
