In many countries, very few young people read newspapers or follow the news on TV. What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions can you suggest?

A number of youngsters all over the

world

have

become less much

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become much less

attentive to update news reported

on

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in

newspapers and

TV

. The main roots of

this

issue

lies

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lie

in the rise of the Internet, which will be discussed in more details below with suggested solutions. It can’t be denied that Internet

has impressively transformed

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impressively transformed

the way we receive information. Have never before keeping up to date with the

world

been

the state or fact of existing

being

as easy and cheap as nowadays thanks to the internet. Just by a click of

mouse

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a mouse

the mouse

we can get any news from anywhere all over the

world

with almost no cost incurred. It is obviously much more convenient and efficient to get info from Internet than traditional media

such

as printed newspapers,

TV

.

Hence

, youngsters who are digital natives find it more appealing to follow news on the Internet.

On the other hand

, it could be a double-edged sword. From the positive view, youngsters who don’t

get news updated

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get updated news

via traditional method would choose online method, by which is still beneficial and informative.

However

, many others get carried away with what we call “trash or fast-food info”. These may include gossips from social media, online tabloids, etc.

Such

information can be very

entertaining but

Accept comma addition

entertaining, but

not educational nor informative in the long run. Henceforth,

this

is truly a worrying problem that we must deal with. Another reason for the lack of updating news via

TV

/ newspapers is by personal preference of

youngsters

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the youngsters

themselves. Today we are bombarded with a lot of negative news all over the

world

since chaos

are

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is

everywhere. Some young people choose not to be up-to-date because simply they do not want to be affected by bad news. They feel that modern life has been stressful enough so

to top

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topping

it up with terrorist attacks, environmental destruction would do no good

to

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for

mental health. So how do we deal with

this

issue?

First

and foremost, there should be a control over

flow

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the flow

of information. For any piece of news be

broadcasted

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broadcast

, there must exist validation process to back up its trustworthiness and rightness.

Secondly

, there should

also

be incentives to encourage youngsters to read news from orthodox sources whether it is traditional or digital.

This

can be done by guiding people from early ages to form a habit of reading news from reputable media brands

such

as CNN, BBC.

Last

but not least, media companies

also

need to invent different methods to capture youngsters’ attention without making exaggerated or even fake statements. All in all, the fact that youngsters no longer follow news from

TV

and newspapers is not an issue if they use a much more efficient tool like

Internet

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the Internet

.

However

, if they let themselves be lured away by other non-educational data on the Internet

then

that is

worrying. Only a

co-operative

involving the joint activity of two or more

cooperative

effort of Governments, media bodies, schools, families and the young people themselves can address

this

problem.