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Some people think that news reports in the media have no connections with
people's lives. Therefore, it is a waste of time reading newspapers or watching
TV news programs. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your
own knowledge or experience.
If you think that watching television news programs or reading newspapers
is a waste of time, you could be right because it is the way most people may
want to digest their leisure hours. If you believe that news reports have no
connections with people's lives, you could not be more wrong. The media and the
public can mutually influence each other through the advertising businesses,
although it is not at all clear how much the media can influence public opinion
and how much public opinion can influence the media.
The news industry connects people's minds by manipulating public opinion.
In this Information Age, whoever controls the news media controls the minds of
the masses as well as consumers' pockets. In reporting news to the public, there
is no denying that television is the most influential medium, followed by the
radio, the Internet, and printed circulations, all of which making people stay
connected constantly. You may say that it is connection that people are after in
most media since such relationship is based on the popular desire to be informed
about almost anything that feeds news desire--crimes, wars, drugs, diseases, and
natural disasters, side by side with breaking news, world events, sports,
businesses, weather and so on. As the mainstream media has become increasingly
dependent on advertising revenues for support, you could not fail to realize
that news is actually the bait to attract buyers.
Relatively, much less is addressed regarding how much public opinion can
influence the media through ratings. In their daily lives, most people
habitually connect themselves with the current rumors, speculations,
predictions, and especially baad news. You can see that it is exactly what the
news media outlets are doing in order to please the public. For that matter, it
is not entirely the media's fault that they are, for the most part, the bringers
of bad news since bad news gets higher ratings and sells more advertisements
than good news, and therefore produces more commercial connections Trying to
calculate the extent to which this relationship reaches is irrelevant, and what
is certain is that the two do have inevitable links. However, it is worth
mentioning that about 99.99 percent of what happens on earth is not on the news
because it is not worthy enough to motivate the audience to "waste" their money
and time.
Contrary views are of course understandable; nevertheless, news reporting
in the media maintains invisible connections with people's lives. Apart from
that, the question whether watching or reading news is a waste of time may
depend on who you ask. What really matters then is that the media can deliver
news and give the public what is wanted and desired; and the public can give
amazing ratings in return.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:25:11