"Whoever controls the media also controls the opinions and attitudes of the people and there is little that can be done to rectify this. To what extent do you agree or disagree?"
It is been argued that individuals' inputs and behaviour are governed by the mass
media
and their controllers. On the other ,hand few believe that it does not tune the human mindset. I personally support former input and supporting arguments will be explained in upcoming paragraphs.
On the one hand, undoubtedly, media
has become the primary source of collecting information
on domestic and international affairs. Everyone trusts the news
and starts reacting and behaving as per the situation that has been broadcasted, either positively or negatively. Whatever content is shown on TV would have a direct effect on people
thinking. For example
, recently there were some details were shown regarding the COVID cases increasing in China again and people
start wearing masks again even though the information
was not authenticated. In addition
, in the contemporary world people
are spending their significant time on social media
and fake communication creates a hard discussion atmosphere and people
start fighting over it. Hence
, the news
creators' content has the power to control people
's behaviours.
On the other hand
, there are a few masses who believe that every individual has the capability to analyse the content and that it should be observed as regular information
only. To be precise, newspapers and daily news
highlights are considered sources of information
to keep up to date with surrounding activities. To demonstrate, according to
a report shared by the local paper, 30-40 % of questions appear in the competitive exam only from general knowledge which students refer to the local newspaper or TV news
. Apart from that, since there are an array of channels available and online updates also
keep buzzing in the mobile they lose interest automatically as they are very much biased toward each other to raise their TRP. As a result
, the ability is the information
for knowledge to keep yourself up to date with society.
To conclude
, However
, mass media
is capable to force people
to think and execute according to
information
. Yet, many people
do not get panic and use it as a source of knowledge.Submitted by Leena Kapoor on
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