■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer | |
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Topic :In order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news sources. | |
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People have varioius preferences regarding obtaining information and news. While it is easy to lean towards a single source of preference, people should get information from many different news sources in order to be well-informed. This way, they can avoid being biased and obtain different themes of information.
For one, relying on a single source may drive the reader or the viewer to be biased. While the media has the obligation to deliver information objectively, lots of sources express their opinions explicitly or implicitly amid their reports. Consequently, people who depend on a single source are apt to absorb such biased opinions defenselessly, establishing an unbalanced view on social matters. For instance, my best friend reads only a single newspaper which is well known to hold a very conservative view on social issues. Their political views are sometimes explicitly exposed in their articles. So whenever I talk to her, I feel that her views on most of the social issues are very much identical to the views of that newspaper. I often suggest different views from her, but she is always very much firm about her thoughts as the only thing that she reads about social matters is that certain newspaper. I felt if she had tried to access other news sources, she would have established a more well balanced aspect on the society.
Furthermore, people can obtain information on wider range of topics by accessing different news sources. Even though medias mainly accord with one another on the most critical issues of the day, their focuses vary on other issues they want to cover. By reading different newspapers or magazines and watching different news on television, people will be able to gain knowledge on various themes of their interests. To illustrate, I have a friend who has so much practical and interesting knowledge on such a wide range of topics. I asked him the secret and he told me that he reads 3 different newspapers everyday and 2 different magazines every week. He said a certain newspaper provides good columns on art, and other on sports, so this way he could obtain good information on various themes. This exemplifies why it is a good way to access different sources in order to gain good information on a variety of fields.
To sum up, I wholeheartedly agree with the opinion that people should get information from many different news sources in order to be well-informed. This is because information a single source provides may be very much biased. Moreover, a variety of quality information can be obtained through a variety of different sources. Thus, accessing different news sources is a highly recommendable way of accumulating balanced knowledge in the current era of information. | |
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