Disadvantages of media to the society? ?

Question

Disadvantages of media to the society? ?

Answer 1

May be its not the perfect answer but almost same in all states.

* The Ex-President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad (India) . * (more over his a great  scientist)

Why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our

Achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success

Stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

We are the first in milk production.

We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.

We are the second largest producer of wheat.

We are the second largest producer of rice.

Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a

Self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements

But our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I

Was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the

Day

After a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The

Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a

Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid

And a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The

Gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the

Newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so

NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign

Things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign

Technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that

Self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad (india) giving this

Lecture,

When a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal

In life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her,

You and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India

Is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.  

Answer 2

The media often scares people more than they need to. Stories about rape, obesity, drunk driving, terrorist attacks, etc. I mean, we should all be aware that these things happen, but we shouldn't go many lengths to avoid them. Otherwise, we'd all be living a rather dull life.

Answer 3

The media chooses what people are going to focus on and worry about. For example, McCain was arguing that the media was focusing on Obama, and wasn't giving him enough airtime. The reason he was arguing this is because media time = awareness for the american people. The media has way to much power for changing the opinions of the American people. Another disadvantage of the media on society is the nightly local news. They lead off their stories with violent crime stories and rarely focus on the good in the world. This affects society because it makes people desensitized to violence and because it makes them fear crime and think it happens all the time. It also takes away from the good in the world because no one reports it.