In order to fully understand what is happening in the world, we must read newspaper; television news does not give information. |
It is often said that in order to fully understand what is happening in the world, reading newspaper is better than watching television news. Some people might disagree with this statement in that television offers visual image and sound viewers. However, I firmly agree that newspaper gives a lot of information over television because news in television broadcasts a wide range of information in a given time and people can read article at their own pace. To begin with, news in television tries to offer a wide range of information in a given time. As a result, the news does not include detail contents and information. Accordingly, people who watch news in television are likely to have difficult obtaining enough information. To demonstrate, according to a study recently released by the In addition, people can read an article at their own pace based on their understanding. It is common that if you are not familiar with the information which television is broadcasting, you should spend a lot of time understanding. However, when you read same information through newspaper, even if you are not familiar with the information, you can read the article again and again with understanding. For example, during my sophomore year, I should write a report comparing the value of the Korean Won with the one of Euro. In order to know the value, I made an effort to find information related with the value of currents through television news which library of my school collected. However, it had to take me three days to understand it because I was not familiar with the topic. On the other hand, when I tried to understand the information through reading newspaper, I only spent a day understanding it because I could repeatedly read the information at my own pace. I saw for myself that newspaper is more beneficial to understand information. In short, I strongly believe that to understand what is happening in the world, reading the newspaper is preferable to watching television. This is because news in television has the shortage of information and people can obtain information at their own pace. |