news on media is on negative than positive development ???

ĐỀ 14/4/2012

News on media tends to focus on problems and emergencies rather than on positive development, which has harmful effects on individuals and society. To what extend do you agree or disagree?

Whether the media only shows the good news or bad news remains controversial. It is believed that such news is only to convey the negative pictures of social development and emergent problems while others claim that the input of good information is still underlined on media. I strongly hold the point that the former idea is reasonable, but the effects are hardly necessarily negative towards individuals and the society.

Admittedly, the ubiquitous presentation of bad news arouses in people the sense of pessimism. Finishing a day of hard-work, we just want to relax and have fun through our experience of good news and exhilarating games on media, not the iteration of something gloomy out there in the world. Ironically, if being imbued with positive news always, we can find the danger equally disastrous when we may become too sanguine and make light of thorny problems. Let’s take Vietnam and China as typical examples. Currently, the praise of heating economy, creation of thousands of jobs, significant GDP growth bestows upon their citizens growing confidence in the nations, but unfortunately, behind such picture are a series of jeopardies from environmental pollution and others. Capturing the dark-side of the society, media actually alarms people and raises their awareness of so-called sustainable development and the message that is “save the world before it is too late”

Secondly, the concentration of good news is conducive to the world’s economy development. After experiencing the recent financial crisis in 2007 and escalating terrorism, human beings are utterly shocked and are in dire need of being motivated through the good news. For instance, that is the world is pouring a great amount of money in rescuing banks and there will be brighter future soon. After all, we need truth, rather than superficial lies which then lullaby us and mislead us to think that instead of taking actions, we are simply crossing our figures and awaiting the spontaneous succor from somewhere. The paradox is that rarely can our dear governments have enough time to intervene in the individual problems while the global issues are ringing like the bell, despite their occasional promises of endeavor on the media. Besides, only after facing the bitter truths can human be awakened to contemplate over their future more and know how to save for rainy days. Looking back on the financial crisis in 2007, America must have perceived a precious lesson that is to reduce their spending and lessen their desire to invest in a bubbling real-estate economy whereas Vietnamese people, after getting out of the illusion of earning big profit from selling houses, become aware of the idea “look before leap”. The roots of these above concern come from where, we may ask- undeniably, the media with a purely over-optimistic picture of the world’s market are to partly blame. 

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