Does The News Serve A Purpose In Our Society

Does The News Serve A Purpose In Our Society

One thing I really enjoy watching on television is the local, regional, and national news in local channels as well as channels uniform CNN found on Dish - Network. When I direct to the news, I obviously am not referring to local, ugly automobile accidents, shack fires, hamlet drive - by shootings, murders at the hands of gangmembers, or any other obnoxious incidents that we see every week on television. I find them all as abhorrent as the next fellow, but I ' ll still chronometer the story. When I do see these kinds of incidents on the news, I just feel sympathy for the people involved, especially the children, who live in those neighborhoods. Often, but not always, they take section in the inner - joint. Nobody really wants to see these kinds of stories, and most people even whim the news channels wouldn ' t even report them as often as they do, but it still is news.
I suppose that we could be lulled into a false sense of security if local channels did not broadcast these kinds of stories to the point that we image that they just don ' t happen frequently, but the truth is that they do. And when they happen in our own hamlet, nook, or town, the local news channels will report them thanks to their job is to report the news, both good and bad, to make people aware of what ' s happening in their own local area. Would anyone of us perceive any safer if we just didn ' t know what was reaction on in our local area? That would certainly be a reversal of the old saying that ' what you don ' t know, can ' t put away you '; well, in this case, it certainly could come back and lacerated you or a family member if you ' re unaware of a local headache. The point I ' m getting to, though, is more along the goods of the need for an active and active television and sling ink news media which both inform us and report these valid news stories to us. It is naturally imperative to have an informed public in a democratic society equaling as ours. We really need to keep the river of information flowing, even when we don ' t analogous what we see and hear and scan in bang out.
The discerning viewer needs to be able to grasp between what is fact and what is speculation. They sometimes will confuse the two. In politically oriented talk shows, for example, the host will always tell his gang exactly what he knows they want to nose out. There are a number of political mind shows on the air lately that impart to either the right or the isolated, depending on their agenda, and the most keen supporters on each side are unmitigated that they are always ' just '. This footing is creating a growing polarization in this country which is likley to get worse before it improves. You will either be labeled as being on the reclusive or the right, profuse or conservative, and either a gloomy or a crimson state. How polarizing is this when the the news agencies and political parties insist on putting us all in one of these groups, or the other? There doesn ' t seem to be any other option. And, there should be.
The whole matter of other polarization in this country can eventually be devastating to us as a society if we don ' t get it subservient control fairly immediately. It has become much more evident over the recent few months with the town entry meetings in which local congressmen and senators met with their constituents, often boiling and apprehensive, to discuss the health - care reform bill. There were charges and counter - charges from both sides, with each side trial the other side was telling lies. The debate even reached a low point when a representative from South Carolina even called the president a ' liar ' on the floor of a joint introduction of congress. We should be glad that we live in a society in which we all share in these freedoms that we too often take for exactly, but at the alike time we should learn not to abuse them, either. The nation deserves better than this, and so do we.
By: Frank Bilotta