Nowadays, the mass media do not report the news; they make the news.
Indeed, mass media today often manipulate facts they gather to produce articles without credibility at all. The press often fabricates stories, self-proclaiming their writings as words of sacred truth, but in actual fact, only bits and pieces are facts, hardly sufficient to prove their integrity at all.
Recent events are events that have taken place not too long ago, and are still valid as evidence for my stand of mass media creating news, instead of reporting them.
One recent event elucidating media manipulation is the conflict between Iran and UK. Apparently, the sale of stories partially falsified by Iran captives has been banned. Such atrocity leaves us with no bearing but to criticize the media for its negative purposes. Is this not a flagrant form of mass media creating news? Furthermore, these news earn them profits which they completely do not deserve at all! Such an incident is indeed a shame to the journalists who appreciate the positive uses of media. An elaboration of the whole article can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6538921.stmAnother recent event in year 2005 that has appalled me is that USA Today 's top foreign reporter, Jack Kelley, was discovered to have fabricated stories from around the world and invented interviews and witnesses from Cuba to Jerusalem. As such, I can now form my own conclusion as to how mass media, mainly comprising of the press and journalists create news to earn money and not report news for the general public to understand current situations. The media’s main aim of ‘reporting’ news is indeed to earn a living and extra profits. Hence they resort to using underhand methods to achieve their goals of having as many readers as possible and thus trying all sorts of ways to make their news juicier by adding bits and pieces of them storylines fabricated by themselves, with completely no concrete evidence at all! This article can be found in:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1418539,00.htmlAnother reason as to why media creates story is so as to propagate a particular concept. As such, a recent event to illustrate my point is when the Bush administration rejected an opinion from the Government Accountability Office, and
said last week that it is legal for federal agencies to feed TV stations prepackaged news stories that do not disclose the government's role in producing them. Comptroller General David M. Walker wrote that such stories violate provisions in annual appropriations laws that ban covert propaganda. (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35010-2005Mar14.html ) Hence form here, it is evident that my deduction
“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
Firstly, I would like to define what is meant by ‘ethics’. The term ‘ethics’ is commonly referred to as a system of moral principles, or simply a set of principles of right conduct. Is it then true that YouTube has absolutely no ethics? For me, my answer would be no! YouTube is a communication network whereby people connect with each other or the general public through videos. Since we’re now in the media age where visual culture is dominating, its is flagrant that we communicate in a much better way through videos! Some people videotape themselves so that they can express their thoughts and emotions via actions or simply talking to the audience. YouTube also runs in such a way whereby viewers can post comments regarding any of the video clips posted. This is evidently another source of communication,
Some may argue that YouTube has been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. This is only partially true, as opposed by my first argument. Any website is a form of business whereby one of its aims is definitely to earn money. Is google not a website that earns mony? What about Yahoo!? All these websites are out to earn money as they are formed as a type of trade and business. But the creation YouTube is not simply just to earn money, it is also a great source of entertainment for many people. Many of the video clips uploaded in YouTube are simply music videos, movies, television drama series and other entertainment news clips. How much harm can such videos do? They are common sources of entertainment today! People need such entertainments for relaxing and pleasure during leisure times.
Hence, it is evident that YouTube is not unethical, neither is it a money-swallowing system. It is a popular source of entertainment and communication today. Without YouTube, people will lose an essential network for global communication.
'The teenage years are the best years of one's life.' Would you agree with this view?
I feel that teenage years are indeed the best years of one’s life. As a teenager, money is usually not an issue for daily life. (This assumption is based on the life of an average teen.) Teenagers do not have to set foot into the real world and competitive society to work and strive for a living! Their only responsibility is to study and score reasonably well results so as to pave a brighter road for their own future. This is considerably simple a task compared to the adults who have to cope with their jobs and family matters. Furthermore, majority of the youths these days do not have to work part-time jobs to earn school fees unlike the olden times. Most of the working teens are actually just trying to earn extra allowance to buy materialistic merchandises!
However to some other ‘emo’ teenagers, life may seem much bleaker and duller, and they might just need a knife by their side at all times to slash off a part of their flesh in an attempt to show the world how miserable they are. Honestly, I do not understand why, but I suppose this is just a phase they go through, and I believe everyone must have undergone the ‘emo’ phase before, just of different extents. But overall, I do stay firm on my stand that life as a teenager is the best because we have our parents to rely on no matter what, and we do not have to take up heavy responsibilities as a youth. Anyway, even if one was ‘emo’ before, do be glad that he or she got over it and learnt something new in their teenage days!
Hence, I still feel that, ‘emo’ or not, life as a teenager is always great because we learn the most , be it academically or simply values of life, and we do eventually understand that taking things in our stride despite the adversities of life will make us a better person in future!
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All About Me -- Phoebe
Hello to all who are reading my blog. Yes, no doubt this is a GP blog! My assignments will be posted here in the future (i suppose) so i hope everyone will enjoy reading my works. Some may be skeptical if i were to claim that reading a GP blog will not make you bored stiff, but i assure you i will try my best to make all my entries as thrilling as can be. Or at least I hope.But the main aim of my first entry is to write a couple of paragraphs to tell everyone all about myself. Well, I'm an open-minded person and i am relatively optimistic. I like to watch the entertainment box in my living room, but fortunately it is not my sole form of entertainment because i do enjoy reading good books as well. But my all-time favourite hobby is eating! I love food, especially fast foods. i love going to Crystal Jade to eat as well because they serve sumptuous delicacies in a reasonably large portion. I am a huge eater so quantity is of more importance than quality in my case. Sounds weird right, but yeah, my stomach is a bottomless pit. My close friends even renamed me The Cow because they claim that i have four stomachs! Hilarious.I guess that's almost about all that's interesting about me. I hope you have understood something about me!
