One of the criticisms of the news media that many people make is that journalists emphasize “bad news” rather than “good news.” I agree, just because I feel most of the time journalist are out to find “bad news” rather than “good news” Yes, I know that their job is to find informative information, but they tend to go towards the bad side. A journalist job is to write about current events, trends, issues and even people. Having so much to write about, yet they still manage to find the bad in what is going on around us. Even though it is helpful and it keeps us informed of what is going on around the world. It would be nice for a change to find more “good news” than “bad news.” Even though we criticize journalist for writing “bad news” it does have it upside, we are informed of what is going on in the world, and this society it is great to know what is going on in the world or you just a outcast. We live in a society were we must know of our surrounding, because you never know when a topic might come up and you might have to talk about it. Like people say “It’s always good, to know a little about everything. Rather then nothing at all.” Needless to say a majority of the people do criticize journalist, but yet again we criticize people, ourselves , everything so it doesn’t make that much of a difference if we as people criticize journalist or not, because if we don’t do it some one else is.
I agree with you 100%, it would be nice to more "good news." But like you say, people what to be informed about all that is going on around them. I know I would rather know about a shooting that occurred in my neighborhood, rather than the boy of two twin boys. "Bad news" is just most interesting and fun to right about.
ReplyDeleteI think that the news definately puts a bad spin on the world. Journalists do this because good news is boring! It does get tiresome after a while to always hear bad things in the world. People need some good news to keep their lives going.
ReplyDeleteTo me it seems like the American people would rather hear the bad news than the good. Some people use the news as a source of entertainment rather than an information source. Sometimes I think people forget that the news actually happens
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