As a saying goes with great power comes great responsibility. It is a distinguished fact that Media has a power over people. People tend to listen to it and build their decisions based on the trust that they have generously put on it. If the media chooses to neglect a story and overlaps it with another story people as mass will choose to neglect it also. Media chooses to stop reporting on the middle east terrorism events that occur on daily basis and People who watch, read or listen it will never know that it exist. If we are suddenly bombarded by negative news day after another people will get affected with negative emotions like withdrawal, social unease & depression etc. Every action has a reaction and in this world controlled by carefully selected news reports the priorities for masses are shifting and social acceptability on issues like gay marriages, Islamophobic changes as per the role of media of how it chooses to portray on these selected matters.
These may be controversial topics but an argument suggest that these topics were made controversial by the very same media. Gay marriages by large is till unacceptable in masses but masses are not free to show their dislike toward the issue, since everywhere in media it is highlighted in a positive way and I am not saying thats bad all I am trying to say here is that, today the gayism is a socially acceptable behaviour and you can not freely show your dislike if you feel otherwise because of the peer pressure. This one example defines how Media defines behaviors. I mean the African American People had to fight for equality for a long time and they have just recently given that right. On the Other hand the gays rights were just delivered by the media on the silver platter. All of us simply accepted the ideology of freely expressing ourselves sexually without any difficulty.
Now moving on toward the how important it is to take this responsibility seriously. We believe that the Media has a greatest power of all thus it has to act according to it. If you use that freedom of speech like a teenage delinquent on a street with graffiti, then the very same freedom of speech can be endanger our lives. How? See there is a huge issue which arises every now & then and that is Islamic Cartoons. We all know how Muslims are regarding their favourite prophet so why are we deliberately igniting them to start the third world war.
Yes Media is free to use its power of freely speaking on any matter in any light but behaving in a certain manner consequently without affirming the reactions or one-sided reactions is a fool's way and one sure way to get yourself and us all burned. And we don't want that, don't spoil our hard earned peace.
Media should act in manner which would bring us all together rather than distributing on different criteria and labeling each with names. Because either the Media outlets tell us or not but, out of 100 people from the world only 3 wants to fight and kill, rest of us all want peace no matter what ethnicity, religion, country or age.
I say the first and foremost responsibility the Media has is bring us together and remind us that we are all humans. And it can do that, it can certainly change our perception and ultimately our behaviours as well.
These may be controversial topics but an argument suggest that these topics were made controversial by the very same media. Gay marriages by large is till unacceptable in masses but masses are not free to show their dislike toward the issue, since everywhere in media it is highlighted in a positive way and I am not saying thats bad all I am trying to say here is that, today the gayism is a socially acceptable behaviour and you can not freely show your dislike if you feel otherwise because of the peer pressure. This one example defines how Media defines behaviors. I mean the African American People had to fight for equality for a long time and they have just recently given that right. On the Other hand the gays rights were just delivered by the media on the silver platter. All of us simply accepted the ideology of freely expressing ourselves sexually without any difficulty.
Now moving on toward the how important it is to take this responsibility seriously. We believe that the Media has a greatest power of all thus it has to act according to it. If you use that freedom of speech like a teenage delinquent on a street with graffiti, then the very same freedom of speech can be endanger our lives. How? See there is a huge issue which arises every now & then and that is Islamic Cartoons. We all know how Muslims are regarding their favourite prophet so why are we deliberately igniting them to start the third world war.
Yes Media is free to use its power of freely speaking on any matter in any light but behaving in a certain manner consequently without affirming the reactions or one-sided reactions is a fool's way and one sure way to get yourself and us all burned. And we don't want that, don't spoil our hard earned peace.
Media should act in manner which would bring us all together rather than distributing on different criteria and labeling each with names. Because either the Media outlets tell us or not but, out of 100 people from the world only 3 wants to fight and kill, rest of us all want peace no matter what ethnicity, religion, country or age.
I say the first and foremost responsibility the Media has is bring us together and remind us that we are all humans. And it can do that, it can certainly change our perception and ultimately our behaviours as well.
