All we hear is the bad news. People think everyone is bad, and people are so suspicious of everyone's actions. Even if someone does something good for others, people will still think that the person would have alternative motives. What do you think about that?
2006-10-02 08:16:53 · 17 answers · asked by james w 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The media is big business just like the Terrel Owens sucide. Frankly I dont care but every sports channel has it. The school shootings was big news now wackos see that and get all hyped up by the attention and decide to outdo it. For example shooting up the amish school wow what genius. Lets make money sell commercials and increase web hits by over covering the shootings. Why are people so obsessed with BAD NEWS
2006-10-02 08:20:48 · answer #1 · answered by jercha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the media is to blame for the way a lot of people feel about the world. For instance I live in Arizona and I have to hear on the news about 7 people dying in a house fire in Maine. Why?
This is a small example, but I think hearing about bad things over and over and over adds up and makes us feel the world is a bad place.
2006-10-02 08:19:21 · answer #2 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The media is a business. Their objective is to get as many people to watch their broadcast as possible. If they thought people prefered happy stories, they would show more.
We are drawn to tragic stories. Just think of how traffic gets clogged when there is an accident. Even when the road isn't obscured, everyone slows down to get a look as they drive by. Can you think of a happy scene that would get our attention like that?
That is the characteristic that fuels this "If It Bleeds - It Leads" mentality in the news.
2006-10-02 08:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd blame the government school system in conjunction with the media. Their goal is to create generation after generation of drones who do not question anything and simply do as they are told.
I learn from life experiences, not what I see on the TV or read in the paper. But, I was lucky enough to have parents who instilled in me the need to think for myself and see both sides of an issue before making up my mind. I am forever grateful for that.
Too many parents these days are letting daycare and then the government school teach their children how to live life. Sad...
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2006-10-02 08:20:43 · answer #4 · answered by FozzieBear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of the media is to inform the public. That being said, it does seem that all the media reports is bad news, not necessarily because that is all that's happening, but because we have become a society more interested in shock value than in human interest stories. We are partially to blame; if we stop watching it, and complain about it, believe you me, they will change their tune.
2006-10-02 08:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by theanswerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media is to blaim for many things, they can create happiness or violence just as easily. Back in 2004 I believe it was two reporters for Newsweek magazine who made the claim American troops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was putting the Koran into the toilet to piss off inmates. This lead to a huge riot in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries which in one instance lead to Afghan troops shooting at violent protesters and killed two of them. A week later it turned out the story was untrue and made up and the two reporters couldn't remember the "source" they got this information from but apologized to reporting the falsified story. Can I ask why these two reporters were charged with manslaughter? Their lies in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lead to innocent people/soldiers getting hurt or killed. I think we need to start holding reporters liable for damaging or falsified stories and start pressuring news agencies to start showing the good stories as well as the bad. A friend of mine who works for a local TV station even told me they have a motto, "If it bleeds, it leads." Does anyone else see something wrong with reporters and their thinking like this? It needs to end.
2006-10-02 08:27:39 · answer #6 · answered by Nathan Lee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately. Somewhere, sometime people going to college for a journalism degree were trained to believe that they are "watchdogs" the "fourth estate" and are charged with finding anything and everything wrong and reporting it. While that in itself isn't exactly wrong, they've lost their main responsibility: honesty. They don't even bother to correct bad reporting (ie: the dead bodies in the Convention Ctr New Orleans, etc). They have a responsibility to be a watchdog and purveyors of factual information, even if its good news.
2006-10-02 08:25:13 · answer #7 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Todays Media is as much to blame for todays problems as anybody or anything else. The latest example, the
person who went into space as the first space tourist. Why is it newsworthy that the tourist was a lady and on top of it all, why mention that this woman is a Muslim. So much for reporting.
2006-10-02 08:22:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have perfectly described the conservative (Republican and FOX news) psychology and agenda.
[A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1017546,00.html
Politically, the is no good news. Everything this administration has predicted and attempted has been a total and complete failure, resulting in a lot of bad things (including maybe 100,000 innocent dead Iraqis) happening to a lot of people all over the world.
2006-10-02 08:25:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Individual whacko actions get magnified out of proportion when media scours every sewerhole in the nation for senstaional news.
2006-10-02 08:21:22 · answer #10 · answered by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋