Throughout the years, I have been keeping up with what's going on in the world, and I have newspapers, and TV news to thank for, such events like the Twin Towers that made an enormous impact on not only the United States, but also other countries. I remember that day as a clear as if it were water, I was 11 years old at that time and I was on vacation. I remember every channel had news about the twin towers some information was hyped and some was more realistic, it was on newspapers and though I never read about it, I could always count on the television to have updates for me. The same situation happened when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it was devastating watching the news and seeing how flooded it was, a place that was once full of houses and life was now a flooded place in which many people had to flee to different states, some came to California, others went to Texas. Watching those images on television was something so sad, but yet the updates were full of hope. The fact that there is such a thing as news reports helps the world be more compassionate of others, of the difficulties they go through. Lets take a more recent disaster, like the Earthquake/Tsunami that happened a couple of months ago in Japan, if we did not have news reports we would definitely we uninformed of such a tragedy, but because we do, we have the heart and compassion to help those in need. Right away the U.S. helped them by donating money or canned foods.
I like to turn to the internet and CNN for more information, because I feel that they have the right information and I can rely on the fact that their reports will not be hyped. One always looks for the truth unfortunately some news reports on television will hype the report to get more ratings. I like to compare and contrast some of the information to see which is hyped and which is not, which one seems to be more realistic.
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ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I didn’t even find out about the Tsunami in Japan until a friend from North Carolina asked me if I was going near a beach anytime soon because of the Tsunami that had hit Japan and there were some reports that it was moving along. I immediately turned on the news and there it was, the tragedy that struck Japan. It was very sad, but at the same time I was shocked at the fact that I didn’t know of anything this big, I couldn’t believe I wasn’t aware of what was happening. I have fallen into habit of not watching TV for the news, I watch reality shows before I go to bed and that’s about it. I use the internet for news and that’s about it. CNN is usually not turned to in my household unless we cross the channel while flipping endlessly to find something on. If something is on to catch ones eye then we stop it on the news, but I think we have gotten used to the fact that a lot of it includes hype and so we really don’t want to take time and decipher what is the truth and what is false.
I agree with the fact that news has kept un informed on things that have happened around this world, but I hate the fact that there is more and more hype being introduced when there are more important things occurring. Sadly, its all for their ratings, I wonder what they’re going to do next to keep us watching.
The news has always done it's job delivering viewers about what is happening around the world. I agree with you in what you said in your blog. If it weren't for the news I wouldn't know about the struggles and hardships going on worldwide. I personally haven't been keeping up with the news or about anything that is going on lately but they make such a big impact to each person watching that the news travels fast. Media does anything to keep viewers watching and it is sad that certain channels will even add hype and false information in order to receive better ratings.
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