The tendency for news reports in the media to focus on problems and emergencies rather than on positive developments is harmful to the individual and to society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The approach of news coverage in the media can vary drastically from focusing the troubles to reporting hopeful trends. While some people might see more coverage of problems and alerting news as a toxic phenomenon to both

society

and its members, I believe prioritizing on reporting

such

events is necessary for individual protection as well as public awareness.

To begin

with, people learn new things by various means, one of which is the media, especially the news rooms of different channels from newspapers to television or even social media applications. These informative routs are now even more practical than schools or universities. With

this

in mind, the media have an important role to warn individuals about possible dangers in their life. The new Corona virus, Aka Covid-19, can be considered as an example here. The more media coverage of

this

pandemic illness and its coincidence, the more people plan to protect themselves in

this

regard.

Therefore

, omitting hazardous trends in the newspapers and just reporting positive ones can seriously endanger the lives of people.

Also

, the

society

as a whole concept has a tendency to ignore problems, which social scientists called

it

of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"

its

collective ignorance. Had the media not focused on the immediate issues, the so-called collective ignorance will spread in a rapid way.

For example

, in the story of global warming, not covering enough about

this

emergency problem of humankind and solely try to magnify the positive developments of the scientists, which is absolutely admirable yet insufficient, can result the

society

to forget about the importance of the issue and relax about not doing actions which deepen the problem.

Hence

, the focus on positive works can even have opposite results and makes the

society

worse off. To recapitulate, the media have two options, either to focus on the problems or report positive developments. I disagree with the idea that claim it is harmful to pick the

first

approach since not only

this

approach will made individuals to protect themselves, but

also

reporting the main problems can aware the

society

to not fall into false hopes and be more aware of what is going on in the world.