How many
times we have woken up in the morning and turn on the tv to watch the news while we
are preparing breakfast but all you see on tv is bad news! Every day there is a
new incident on the streets, strikes, bad decisions taken by the government,
many catastrophes happening around the world or people involved in an accident.
So every day you think “isn’t there any good news in any of the channels that
cheer me up in the morning?” and when the answer is not you feel frustrated.
But yes,
exceptions exist. Every once in a while there is a good news: improvements for
the city, someone winning a humanitarian prize (and I cannot think of any other
example, I haven’t seen many good new lately :/).
Now, let’s
get a little pessimistic. What happens when good news are not entirely good. For
example, when a police investigation is being carried out and every step of it
appears on tv. Let’s analyze this: a campaign against child sex exploitation on
internet developed a software, a computer-generated 10-year-old girl in order
to catch paedophiles. The sources revealed to the reporters that this “little
girl” was a Philippine girl called Sweetie and that by using her they had been
able to catch one thousand paedophiles and that they will continue with their
work.
My questions
in relation to this are: if the project was really successful why would you
risk it by making it public. Don’t they know that paedophiles also watch news?
Won’t they be aware about Sweetie now?
Another
example would be a piece on news where a building got burnt but luckily nobody
was injured and we tend to think “Wow! What a good piece of news”. But think
twice. Is it really good news that a building got burnt? Do we need bad events
that turn out good in the end in order for them to be good news?
I consider
that although we take for granted that some news are good news, sometimes we
have to take a look at the biggest panorama.
Yes Vale! I agree with you! I may be a very pessimist person but I think that the topics of the news are intended to catch the public attention, so as to have high TV ratings! People who are working in the TV are not interested in informing good news as the audience are often caught by negative news! In other words, they report news that catch the attention of the public. However, I think that there is always good news around us, the only thing is that we may not consider them as good news or we do not see them as such.
ResponderEliminarHaha, I totally agree with you Val. That´s why I decided not to watch TV, or at least while I´m having lunch or dinner. It is like bad news do not only affect yourself physically, but at the same time this sad state causes your stomach to suffer as well,haha. But you know what, that is the way mass media work nowadays. They cannot help it. And even though the piece of news is highly remarkable there will always be a bad side, RAITINGS. Nothing is for free, not even good events happening in society.
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