What do you think about the media in the United States?
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Abhinand,
India The media here tries to entertain not to educate. I think that's a fundamental difference between here and other countries. Other countries you look at the news and it gives you a picture of the world. Here you look at the news, it tells you what is happening in a local community. The news is all local news, it's not global news. In many times it's not even important news, you know, important bills or important congress legislation. They don't want that. Instead, they want to give time to peace protests or they want to give time to somebody who did something with their dog or something like that. That's why American people don't know that much about other countries or other cultures, or other ways of life. And I would lay a lot of the blame on the media because the media is trying to entertain the people. |
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Stanislaw,
Bulgaria In my eyes, the media is ridiculous. I'll say just one thing "Judge Judy" totally ridiculous, it's pathetic if you ask me, totally pathetic. I cannot believe people are crazy about this show. On the other hand, if you ask the question why is media so ridiculous...because the media serves all those people that they have to sell their products, and they have to manipulate the masses. It's one of the tools what advertising is all about, it's part of the economy. To make a profit, you should sell more. To sell more, you have to engage customers to know about your product, and that's how it works. |
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Mia,
Finland When you watch the news, it's supposed to be serious and educate the people of what is going on in the world. But first of all here, they don't even have the world news here. Media is what educates a lot of us and that's how we get to see the rest of the world and what is going on in the world. And here you don't really get it unless you go on the Internet or other sources. The news here is like an action movie and it got all these commercial breaks. I love watching news in Europe because you get a little bit of what's going on in all the parts of the world and it's not really action-based. I feel sometimes silly when somebody calls me from Europe and asks me "did you hear what happened in Turkey" and so forth, and I'm like "no, I didn't hear that." |
What do you think?
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just wondering Kelly if you have any idea how they do it in other countries... (you probably would be quite surprised it's a lot more than 30 minute segment at 6:30)
Um...actually there is a whole 30 minute segment devoted to World news. It come on channel 11, WTVD, at 6:30.
to me, there are just way too many commercials on TV but i understand that's the way TV channels support themselves. also, like other students are saying, the news aren't that global. Well, at least, you get a little bit on TV channels like CNN, but that's about it.
tv news coverage doesn't seem to be very global here, you don't see much what's going on in other countries
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