Thursday, October 8, 2009

Media

The media, the communication tool, has transmitted news-both globally and locally- to mostly every households all around the world. It remains crucial in every day's life for newspapers always back us up on the latest news or gossips all around the world. While the media is thriving in it's industry, some claimed that it is somehow being misused and this raises concerns from certain parties, varying from parents and educationist to politicians and to celebrities, which portrays the disadvantages of the mass media in a society, in a country and also to the globe.

Almost 99% households in the US states own at least a television set(TV). With the increasing chances of exposure of TV to children at home, it is believed that the media present a threat to them as parents claimed that the media depiction of aggressive acts is potential enough to indoctrinate the younger generation's mind, especially adolescents, where they can't tell whether the make-belief movies are reality or just a virtual world. In contrary, media violence is one of the most debated issue worldwide and it is often brought up in elections. In the case of life imitating art, 2 teenagers went on a murder spree based on Oliver Stone's movie "Natural Born Killer". Since then, parents concern about the cartoon violence, verbal aggression and the aggressive acts displayed on TV. In the 1970s, Hollywood were given a pushed to institute a rating system in order for parents to decide the suitability of the movies for their children. Although it has proved effective, the potential threat still remains as parental supervision is always limited.

With the aid of the press and the media, politician's image are posed to be tarnished by opposition leaders. It can be started out with personal interest, or for the power, when one's is die-hard to attack some other politicians, attempts can be made by just through media. With the huge sum of money "prized" to an unethical journalist, one can simply spoil the others' image. This circulation of libels in newspapers caused citizens unable to determined which are the "good" guys and which are the "bad" guys. Worst of all, they ended up supporting the wrong leader and suffer through their lives! As a result, most people do not accept whatever that was written or reported in the news for it could be bias itself. For instance, Maharashta PWD Minister Chaggan Bhujbai in Mumbai said that the reportedly "vilification campaign" against him for his alleged connection to the multi-croke fake stamp paper scam was an attempt to damage his political career, as well as to tarnish his and his family's image.


This is just an essay and it does not support/ruin any parties mentioned above.