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?

It is opined that
news
stories telecasted on television and printed
on
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newspapers are more attractive by
pictures
rather than
words
. On the whole, I agree
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statement to a great extent with
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reservation
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, as mentioned in the following paragraphs. To commence with,
pictures
attract
the
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people
more than
the
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words
. Nowadays,
people
watch or
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those
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news
which
are
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attractive to their eyes. It helps in building the interest of
viewer
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the viewer
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or reader, leading to watching or reading that particular
story
till the end.
Moreover
, pictorial representation
help
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helps
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the viewers to retain that particular
story
for a longer
time
in comparison to the written
story
.
Much
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details can be provided by a single
picture
as
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comparison
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to
huge
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number of
words
. The exact situation can be presented through a
picture
only, whereas there will be a lot of requirement of
words
to depict the approximate image of the event.
For instance
,
situation
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the situation
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of a terrorist attack can be better shown through a
picture
rather than in
words
.
Moreover
,
picture
news
story
helps in saving the
time
of
viewer
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the viewer
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. Nowadays,
people
do not have much
time
to read
news
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story
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stories
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,
thus
, they prefer to watch it through the means of
picture
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pictures
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and video, which saves their
time
. It will be more useful as
major
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portion of
population
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will watch
this
and can learn from
this
.
On the other hand
, some
people
do find reading
news
story
as effective as it can provide much detail of the event happened before and after. As
pictures
cannot be used more often,
it
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may lack
many
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useful information.
Also
, some of the events cannot be
pictorically
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pictorially
historically
depicted.
For instance
,
government
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the government
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has taken a decision related to finance,
this
story
can only be shared with
public
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the public
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through
words
, and not through
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the picture
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picture
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pictures
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.
Therefore
, I would like to conclude that most of the
news
stories are now covered through
pictures
, which
also
helps
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at a wider scale to imagine the event and retain it for a longer period.
However
, some of the events require
words
to provide detailed information to
audience
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the audience
an audience
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.
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