News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in a newspaper. What factors do you think influence their decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported?

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factor is how hot and attractive the news is. Who will
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the news
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week? The answer is
nobody absolutely
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. In the energetic and competitive world nowadays, people always ask for a really new news. So that to satisfy customers, there is a pressure on all editors to find continually what has already happened not only yesterday but even an hour ago. Or else, they may lose their customers. None of editors
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that bleak future. The type of news is
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an important consideration. Whether on television or in newspapers, we seem to get more of and become used to bad news. It is harder for us to come across a piece of good news. We can’t deny that bad things happen on Earth day by day.
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, news editors try to gain more and more customer, which means more and more money, using bad news as a magnet. Because bad news makes us curious. We want to know why it is bad, what it is about, whether it influences us or not.
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, we will buy newspapers or watch television to find out. And the happiest people are, of course, news editors. In my
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would be better if more good news were reported. Bad news makes us worry and
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. Whereas good news makes us happy. There should an an equal amount of good and bad news. In that way we can give something bad a lot of thought while still being happy about the good news. Any inequalities between good news and bad news should be avoided. Nowadays we cannot live without news, and for that reason the role of news editors became very important. We should support them, and in turn they should try their best to provide us with useful news, both good and bad.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • broadcast
  • print
  • news editors
  • viewership
  • readership
  • ratings
  • revenue
  • sensational stories
  • scandals
  • dramatic events
  • relevance
  • societal issues
  • prominence
  • political influences
  • corporate influences
  • biases
  • ownership
  • political affiliations
  • immediacy
  • locality
  • target audience
  • human interest stories
  • emotional responses
  • desensitization
  • public apathy
  • indifference
  • optimistic outlook
  • community achievements
  • acts of kindness
  • boosting morale
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