IRIB reporter and boomerang theory

Saeed Mandari

Recently, Ameena Sadat Zabihpour, a reporter for Thabit Khabar 20:30 of Iran TV channel, said that we took a film of the early morning shops in Bomhan (Tehran province) and presented it to Persian language channels abroad as a strike by the shopkeepers of Kamiyaran (Kurdistan)!

Baby! Radio and TV did not get a chance from the reporter. Usually, the news and statements of journalists, especially famous and senior journalists, are reliable everywhere in the world. The works and books they write are documentaries and sometimes reach academic circles. This honorable lady does not know what kind of damage she has done to her credibility, Khabar 20:30, and IRIB as a whole by doing this and announcing it officially.

There is an old theory in communication science called the "boomerang effect", which all undergraduate students of communication and sociology are familiar with.

Boomerang is an old tool among the native people of Australia, which is returned to its owner by throwing and hitting it towards hunting or anything. According to communication scholars, fake news and lies from the media and journalists are also like this. The false news that is thrown to the society by the media and the reporter returns disbelief and mistrust like a boomerang to the source of the news and questions his credibility more than ever.

Based on this and according to the journalist's clear statement about falsifying news, people say to themselves that it has always been like this in these forty years and they have lied. This is to say that the national media did not get a chance from the reporter!