News stories on TV and in newspapers are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this?

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Nowadays pictures accompany news stories on TV and in the newspapers very often. Some people believe that these pictures are more effective than words. I completely agree with
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statement.
Firstly
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, the pictures
makes
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make
the news more memorable.
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details of accidents provided by pictorial illustrations make the audience more clear about the faults that has occurred and led to fatalities.
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is because images are easy to draw attention and are retained by people for a longer time.
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,
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will lead to more social awareness among public and can prevent future similar news to happen again. As a consequence, people will try to avoid having accidents with the prevention of similar mistakes.
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, due to pictures the people get clear conveying news.
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, for every health program sponsored by the government of India there is a symbol and emblem which is correlates the cause and message to common people.
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helps with sharing with them and accept the social perception easily.
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has led to success of pregnant women and baby health program and tuberculosis (TB) health program widely.
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, the awareness among illiterates who are unable to read can be increased by visual descriptions.
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, it favours each strata of society (poor or rich) by spreading
message
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messages
of welfare and well being. To conclude, I would concede that pictures are more impactful. As these leads to more remembrance and clear conveyance to public even to illiterates. Overall, I am convinced that images are more important than only news.

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