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Seok Teng
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Sunday, June 5, 2011, 12:32 PM
MEDIA
Disclaimer: This is not a GP essay so I will not go on to define terms. What I'm saying is just my personal opinion. I do not own the pictures, just adapted them from some random websites.
As you know, media reveals truth to us, it also hides truth from us. in some cases, they twists the truth.. no longer were the days where reporters, TV makers etc were truthfully reporting every pieces of news and information. now, they select news that interest readers, that can increase their ratings, that aid them to rake in advertisment. juicy news were favoured. i don't deny i read these tabloids, evidently seen when i always flip to the entertainment section in the newspapers. nonetheless, i do kp in mind that these articles aren't not factual, totally. this is esp so aft someone i know of appear in the news and the story is completely twisted. it may not be of any big deal since it is a small piece of news. ok, maybe not since it occupy the headline n 1 whole page of the newspaper. but wad abt the protagonists??? do the reporters know their false reports can affect the ppl involved negatively? to me, it is totally unethical to do such things.
when i was young, i rmb myself admiring those reporters for being the watchdogs of the public. yet when i mature, i start to respect less for their professionalism. certainly, i wun deny that the media has done alot for the public. if not for them, we wun get known of the NKF scandal, those poisonous food in China, the ugly side of the showbiz, the different natural disasters ard the world etc... but how much truth is there in their reports? n it is sort of irritating they sometimes run days and days of headlines without anything constructive. it was just juicy news, exaggerated and unnecessary. like i rmb years ago abt some murder cases. a murder case n they can just run it for weeks. n the content of the news is seriously crap. below are just some examples of tabloids news. real or not, exaggerated or not its up to your own decision. i don't know all of the news. but wad i can only say is - take it with just a pinch of salt.
Disclaimer: This is not a GP essay so I will not go on to define terms. What I'm saying is just my personal opinion. I do not own the pictures, just adapted them from some random websites.
As you know, media reveals truth to us, it also hides truth from us. in some cases, they twists the truth.. no longer were the days where reporters, TV makers etc were truthfully reporting every pieces of news and information. now, they select news that interest readers, that can increase their ratings, that aid them to rake in advertisment. juicy news were favoured. i don't deny i read these tabloids, evidently seen when i always flip to the entertainment section in the newspapers. nonetheless, i do kp in mind that these articles aren't not factual, totally. this is esp so aft someone i know of appear in the news and the story is completely twisted. it may not be of any big deal since it is a small piece of news. ok, maybe not since it occupy the headline n 1 whole page of the newspaper. but wad abt the protagonists??? do the reporters know their false reports can affect the ppl involved negatively? to me, it is totally unethical to do such things.
when i was young, i rmb myself admiring those reporters for being the watchdogs of the public. yet when i mature, i start to respect less for their professionalism. certainly, i wun deny that the media has done alot for the public. if not for them, we wun get known of the NKF scandal, those poisonous food in China, the ugly side of the showbiz, the different natural disasters ard the world etc... but how much truth is there in their reports? n it is sort of irritating they sometimes run days and days of headlines without anything constructive. it was just juicy news, exaggerated and unnecessary. like i rmb years ago abt some murder cases. a murder case n they can just run it for weeks. n the content of the news is seriously crap. below are just some examples of tabloids news. real or not, exaggerated or not its up to your own decision. i don't know all of the news. but wad i can only say is - take it with just a pinch of salt.
GE news. I think the news is sort of biased towards the opposition teams. perhaps the opposition gave more info which the reporters like, more sensational. unlike the PAP which is uhm, boring n political correct. esp nicole seah. i hv no qualms with her. she is better than tpl, if u just judged on the stuff during the GE period. however, i dun think she deserve so much coverage. in fact, she has to thank tpl for her popularity. i believe that there are other candidates who deserve more reports on them and their campaign. n the comparison of the fb likes. totally ridiculous and childish.
edison chen sex photos scandal. well, i dun hv to say much. of cos it is morally wrong of mr chen and the other females to do this kind of stuff. but do the media hv the need to publish the pictures and run the news for like a mth? think of the protagonists' family. they r innocent yet they hv to bear the humiliation.
brangelina news. dunno much abt them and dun really care.what i hv say so far are mostly discrediting the media. of cos they do, on the whole, still tried to publish truths. there are also a few reporters with integrity. so i wun deny their efforts. just that as the media industry starts to bloom, it is disheartening to see less and less credibility in it. perhaps the whole industry is meant to be not so credible esp since most are controlled by the gov. i just hope that there will be more objective info and truth in the media instead of just the opinions of the reporters or writers.