In an open letter by Nobel Prize Winner Professor Charles K. Kao, dated on October 13 2009 expressing his gratitude to his friends, staff, students and alumni at Chinese University of Hong Kong, members of the media, and the people of Hong Kong, the message read: “Now you know who is responsible for the fiber optical cables that enable all the excessive information, both true and false, good and bad, that circulate on the internet.
The remark nicely summarizes the situation in the cyber world in which internet surfers are bombarded with information that might be “true or false, good and bad”.
The impact can be quite disappointing - when assessing the effect of new media on news reporting - if false information finds it way back to the real world through traditional media.
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