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Influence of the media on how the news is perceived
- I would like to talk about the following topic, since I will soon have to express my viewpoint in class about that: does the media have a major influence on how the news is perceived by the public?
- Nowadays, the media can be considered as the link between from the one hand the political institutions, the foreign affairs, the economic situation and from the other hand, the public.
- However, the responsibility of the media to influence the people can be discussed.
- Does the media only reports the facts it is aware of or are these facts used to diffuse a viewpoint?
- To begin with, it is technically very difficult to report a fact without providing a viewpoint.
- The person who relates a fact, usually a journalist, cannot prevent his/her personal feelings from interfering into his/her story.
- I personally had the opportunity to travel in Asia, where I discovered a culture which is different from the European way of life.
- Nevertheless, it was also different, by far, from what the local media usually explains about Asian food, people or geography.
- Nevertheless, the influence of the media has to be put into perspective.
- It depends on the kind of facts.
- When it comes to a environnemental accident, it remains very easy to relate facts properly since only facts need to be related.
- Conversely, if it is about a political election or the economic growth, many viewpoints can emerge.
- For instance, all journalists usually agree about the reasons of a road accident, but most of them disagree when it comes to the merits of a political measure.
- The European measures taken to financially help Greece are a significant example of this.
- To conclude, I think that in general the media deeply influence the public, even though the journalists might not be aware of their own responsibility.
- They usually think that they are impartial when it is obviously not the case.
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