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As internet is widely spread through among the people, they now have countless sources to have information they want. With the progress of internet and increase amount of information, people started to have information not only from one source but from wide range of places to get cutting-edge information as soon as possible. Some even say it is inevitable to have lots of news source. I also agree with the statement that peopel should earn information by diverse means but I would also recommend them to limit the quantity of news sources they meet.
First of all, using only one media for information can provoke the prejudice on readers' mind. True that media should keep neutral side in social issues, most of the medias can not help showing their genuine mind whether it is purposeful or not. In other words, media of complete neutral can not exist. For example, Chosun-ilbo, newspaper that I am subscribing on is the top brand newspaper in South Korea. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that they often disclose their right-wing ideology by particular columns or editorial. Without reading other medias that have opposite opinion against Chosun-ilbo, I would have soon affected negatively by them whether I want or not. Therefore, it can be said that appropriate "other" news sources are required for people to balance their opinion and not to have prejudice.
Secondly, meeting diverse kinds of news resources gives an opportunity to garner another information we do not know before. Let me state my experience. I read a news that school crime is getting tougher and often from the newspaper I am buying. Getting curiosity on that issue, I searched for more information on school crime in internet. Soon I found out school crimes are connected with various kinds of reasons including stress, violent contexts in game, lack of communication, and so on. If I had simply read a newspaper and done on that period, more information counld not have been found. Citing other resources may give a chance to users of having more accurate, abundant and beneficial contents. Also, I would say people should limit the quantities of news sources by two to third since too many information would rather confuse reader or interfere with having a time of consideration about social issues.
In a nutshell, having various news sources is needed to get balanced idea and to earn more useful and deepened ideas. However, people should be also careful of having too much information than they need because it only reduce the efficiency of infomation processing. |