COVID-19 Story-2: Breaking news: Getting more information about Coronavirus

COVID-19 Story-2:
Breaking news: Getting more information about Coronavirus
(Fears, Rumours, Nightmares: How our society is dealing with the reality of coronavirus?)

Ahmedabad, March 30, 2020: Breaking news is now more important than ever before especially when people want to know the real-time information in form of authentic facts and figure from the reliable source now matter whether it is coming from the public, private or social media. When open Google search one can clearly see the third category search i.e Get more information about Coronavirus, it says that people search regular updates from across the world.
Breaking news is like a media fascinated term that appeared 24x7 on TV news channels and Digital News platforms from websites to apps. This is time that one can feel the difference between fake news and real news. Journalism is more craft than a profession and to break news as breaking news required a news sense before disseminating on the public domain. Fears, rumors,, nightmares, quarantine, social distancing, isolation and staying home, these are the situation that our society and humanity is dealing with the daily new reality show of COVID-19. Nothing to say about so-called "Gurus" of Whatsapp University and other such Social Channels. We all had this experience during the Coronavirus Outbreak. And yes, its side effects - Sanitizers and Masks, Medicines, Vegetable getting run out every day and night.
What are we doing? Probably nothing or the flip side is many things. We must behave with responsibility and never follow any breaking news on Social Channel without fact-checking. Go with the responsible media. Many a time that happens that we get misleading breaking news from responsible media also because even they got some misinformation. So, as a responsible citizen, we must follow the Government's official announcement as breaking news in this turmoil situation.
Contributed by: Bharat Thakkar, Business Mentor and Founder of Business Growth Technique Partners Network (BGTPN) and Dr. Shashikant Bhagat, Faculty, National Institute of Mass Communication and Journalism (NIMCJ), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

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