News plays an important part of most people's lives. Why is news so important to people? why is so much news dedicated to bad news? Should the news focus on good news instead?

There is no doubt that news plays a crucial role of influencing people's decisions. Many people consider news to be an important part of their
lives
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life
.
This
essay is going to focus on several issues pertaining to news and support them with relevant examples. News is important to people because it is the only source of information
of
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about
on
whats
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what's
happening in the world.
Citizens
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Citizen
watch news to stay updated with what events are
occuring
come to pass
occurring
in their neighbourhood, and the world.
For example
, a person may invest in
stock market
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the stock market
and might watch news to
understad
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
understand
understood
what is happening in the market, so that he can plan his actions
accordingly
.
Furthermore
, many people watch
news
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the news
during election season so that they can decide a worthy candidate for the nation. Taking advantage of its popularity, many news channels these days are focusing more on bad news creating a sense of fear among people. They do
this
because bad news
attract
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attracts
more people than good news, and helps to increase a media outlets popularity.
For example
, a government policy in
India which
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India, which
was bad received a backlash from people, but the same policy when amended based on public opinion did not even
recieve
get something; come into possession of
receive
a
praise
something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
prize
price
.
Although
people are more attracted to bad news, I believe that
media
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the media
should focus on both good and bad news equally.
This
is
becuase
for the reason that; on account of
because
, if
media
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the media
just focused on good news people might start ignoring the bad.
For example
, in my country when
media
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the media
reported a good news that the number of COVID-19 cases had started to reduce people started coming out and neglected the epidemic,
however
the truth was that we were only testing the patients with symptoms and the media had neglected it, which could have had an
advere
contrary to your interests or welfare
adverse
affect
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
effect
because COVID-19 patients can be asymptotic as well. To conclude, in my opinion, news media rather than using the popularity of news for their own advantage should focus on providing
transperent
transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
transparent
information to the citizen.

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