ผลกระทบของแหล่งข่าวที่ถูกสื่อมวลชนละเมิดสิทธิ์

Abstract

                   The article titled “Impacts on News Sources Violated by Media” is adapted from the research project with the same title. This article illustrates categories of abuses introduced by media to news sources, impacts on new sources violated by media, and recommendations to reduce these adverse impacts.
                   This is a qualitative study adopting the concepts of liberty and rights, and media ethics. The purposive sampling is applied with two groups: (1) cases affected by violation of media which are four clusters, three cases per clusters, totaling 12 cases--children and youth, patients, normal persons and celebrities; and (2) academics and the Media Council's executives. A method of in-depth interview is used.
                   Following the editorial procedures, there are four key categories of abuses done by media to the news sources: (1) violating the new sources during the fieldwork, (2) violation of agreement during the feld work, (3) violation of basic news reporting, and (4) violation in presenting news.
                  Regarding impacts on new sources violated by media, there are two categories of impacts affecting the new sources: the negative and positive impacts. For the negative impacts, there are six characters: (1) loss of privacy, (2) mental impact, (3) impacts on daily life, (4) impacts on reputation, career, and fightsfor lawsuits, (5) loss of life, and (6) interruption of work of government officials.On the contrary, for the positive impacts, there are two favourable characters: (1) advancement or progress of the lawsuits and the new sources receiving justice, and (2) the new sources receiving moral support and other assistance from society or public.
                  Recommendations from the research project are as follows. (1) Media, editorial staff, and media organisations must increase their sensibility in respecting rights of new sources such as informing news sources on conditions and details of the interviews, concealing identific-tion of news sources when necessary, presenting correct information, not presenting contents of violence, not showing pictures of body/corpse, etc. (2) News sources must retain for their rights such as rejecting the interviews or informing media to conceal their identity or appealing when their rights are infringed. (3) The Media Council must better publicize to increase people's participation.