News editor decide what to to broadcast on television and what to print in newspaper. What factors do you think influence these dicisions? Do we bacame used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported?

It has often been said that Good news is bad news' because it does not sell newspapers. A
radio
station that once decided to present only good news soon found that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad news
on the other hand
is so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it.
we
Suggestion
We
have become immune to bad news and the newspapers and
radio
stations are aware of
this
. While newspapers and
TV
stations may aim to report world events accurately be they natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is
also
true that their main objective is to sell newspapers and attract listeners and viewers to their stations. For
this
reason
TV
and
radio
stations attempt to reflect the flavour of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listeners' preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or
TV
soap operas focus more on local news, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more serious stations and newspapers like to provide 'so called' objective news reports with editorial comment aimed at analysing the situation. If it is true,
then
, that newspapers and
TV
stations are tailoring their news to their readers' and viewers' requirements, how can they possibly be reporting
real
Suggestion
Real
world events in an honest and
objecive
the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
objective
light? Many
radio
and
TV
stations do, in fact, report items of good
news but
Accept comma addition
news, but
they no longer
caf
this
news. They
refer
Suggestion
Refer
to these as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising,
for instance
, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in the form of documentaries: the fight against children's cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • News editor
  • Broadcast
  • Print
  • Audience preferences
  • Current events
  • Public appeal
  • Ownership and control
  • Political motivations
  • Ideological motivations
  • Economic considerations
  • Advertising revenue
  • Sensational news
  • Negative news
  • Headlines
  • Availability and accessibility
  • Investigate
  • Human interest
  • Negativity bias
  • Desensitization
  • Feeling of helplessness
  • Positive news
  • Public morale
  • Balanced perception
  • Promoting action
  • Desensitization
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