Some people believe that there are too many bad news stories broadcast.They believe that the news should be more balanced between good and bad news stories.To what extent do you agree?Discuss.Write at least 250 words.
In today’s world, we are surrounded by various kinds of news stories, which have become an essential part of our daily lives.However,some people believe that there too many bad news broadcast and they think news should be more balanced between good and bad news.From my point of view,
It is true that newspapers and TV stations mainly aim to report world events accurately, like the natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war. While it is also true that their main objective is to sell newspapers and attract listeners and viewers to their stations. For this reason TV and radio stations attempt to reflect the flavor of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listeners’ preferences. Programs specializing in pop music or TV soap operas focus more on local news, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more serious stations and newspapers like to provide “so called” objective news reports with editorial comments aimed at analyzing the situation.
If it is true, then, that newspapers and TV stations are tailoring their news to their readers’ and viewers’ requirements, how can they possibly be reporting real world events in an honest and objective light? Many radio and TV stations do, in fact, report items of good news but they no longer call this news. They refer to
these as
human interest stories and package them in programs specializing, for instance, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in the form of documentaries: the fight against children’s cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
they tend to promote news that is dramatic and exciting in order to grab people’s attention. Since a lot of this kind of news is about problems, disasters and emergencies, these kinds of stories can appear to dominate the news. Sometimes, however, the news media seem to want to create bad news stories. They seem to be searching for bad news even within good news. I think that this kind of reporting can be detrimental to individuals and to society because it suggests that everything is bad.
On the other hand, there is plenty of good news that is reported. News media rarely focuses only on bad news. This raises the question of whether news media focus on bad news or whether news consumers do. If it is consumers who focus on bad news instead of good news, I think that says more about the consumers than the media. However, if the news media focuses on good news, and ignores bad news, this can also cause problems, because it may mean that the people responsible for causing problems do not have to face scrutiny for their actions.
To conclude, I think that if the news media focuses too much on negative stories, this can have a bad effect on individuals and society, but paying too much
attention to positive news can have the same result.
news reports should be objective and unbiased, whether they are good news or bad news.
There is a widespread concern that excessive reports on problems may cause panic or instability. For instance, when people are exposed to reports on crimes too often, they tend to lack sense of security. What is worse is the detailed description of the crime cases that makes people uncomfortable. If people become over-cautious, they may lose their trust on other people and it is difficult for them to develop a harmonious interpersonal relationship.
Despite the concern mentioned above, we should not ignore the fact that reports on problems and emergencies contribute to the solution of social problems. First of all, these reports draw people’s attention to some serious and urgent issues. For example, when a country suffers from war or natural disasters, the international community reaches their hands immediately to help the victims after they see the news reports. Also, negative reports urge the government to reflect on the deficiency of their administration and make an effort to improve their work. One case that happened in the past few decades is that in some cities the living standard of poor urban population was highly raised after their situation was revealed by the media.
In conclusion, news reports on the dark side of the society cannot be avoided and in most cases they help to solve social problems and promote the
development of the society. But we should also be aware that there is no need to over-react to the negative reports.
因篇幅问题不能全部显示，请点此查看更多更全内容