Media has a big role to play in the spread of any news and curiosity building. Which type of news do you feel media should give more focus to, good or bad?

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We are living in
a
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an
age where every adult is supposed to update himself instantly with the latest happenings and rapid changes. In fact, all of us are literally coping up with the news and information overload through various sources like television, internet, radio and newspaper. Any news, good or bad, catches a massive public attention if
media
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the media
gives
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give
more footage. Bad news is often broadcasted as "breaking news" on television news channels. Even in newspapers, it finds a prime location to catch
public's eye
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the public's eye
. Bad happenings or crime news catches early attention as it is different from usual, regular happenings. People are curious to know more and more about it as they think, "It can't happen to me." On the top of it, TV or print media often does hammering of the same news for an indefinite period of
time which
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time, which
makes people interested to know real-time developments in the news story. News on a serial-killing,
for instance
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, would make people quite desperate to know about the
further
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moves of the killer and efforts being made to catch him. Bad news
also
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gains publicity as it provides warning and alarming signals. Good news,
on the other hand
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, is related to technological advancements, sports, celebrity, events and so on.
Such
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news can be
further
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glamorised to catch more attention of the readers or listeners. It
definately
without question and beyond doubt
definitely
has a healthy impact on people's mind and is good for children too who are psychologically weaker to digest crude realities and shocking news. Even for the bad news, sometimes media
has
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have
to perform a
mildening
extremely annoying or displeasing
maddening
role by reducing the shock intensity to lessen the panic. I think
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the media
should focus on
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news that carries
weightage
a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
vintage
to cause some kind of social development and is oriented to generate
awarness
having knowledge of
awareness
and consciousness in the burning issues of the society.
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