Many people believe that The news media always provides us with impartial information. From my point of view, however, they may manipulate much information in order to obtain profits. So I disagree with the above statement.
First, broadcasting centers should try to attract their customers more than their rival centers. Thus, they want to send only information alluring people to us. This is mostly because people can be fell in their strategies. For instance, if there was a rumor that a renowned person marry another cerebrity, the news media would utterly focus on this issue to get viewers. People must be interested in this issue, and broadcasting centers would end up making manipulation for their benefits.
Second, viewers have no choice but to become passive because of the feature of the news that is introduced by TV or newspapers. It is very difficult that People who obtain the information judge whether this news gives us truth or not. For example, commercial advertisements on the Internet are criticized by many internet users, so they have to supply correct information for those users. However, the news media through TV or newspapers have not this requirement.
For these reasons, I strongly think that the media does not give us unbiased news. Most of us are allured by advertising strategies of media and misunderstand many information because broadcasting centers want to luring their customer more and more. On the whole, the news media give us information which is full of prejudice. |