Insia Saleh - First Paragraph (Introduction)

The media is an intricate part of the society, intertwined with the practice of democracy with huge extent influences public opinion. In today’s modern day society, media plays a very important and powerful role. Media can make or break the society. It is truly said, “The pen is mightier than the sword” i.e. words are more powerful and effective than weapons. And this is what media takes advantage of---advantage of their writing. It is almost like having a war in their writing. But in this modern era, media is facing fierce competitions in their own world and as such always reports incidents dramatically and sometimes even in sleazier way to attract the viewer ship. I believe that media also sometimes gets biased and shows only one sided story, pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news in an objective way. They exaggerate certain irrelevant stories while ignoring some of the important parts and give little thought to the ramifications and consequences behind an eye-catching coverage of the story. The way of their reporting the facts is as such that people get a false impression for the sake of a good story. In order to get good ratings and to get rich, media is often held in a similar level regard, like politicians, in blaming other kinds media like violent movies, video games and music. But they always fall back on the mantle of public interest just to get fame. In this essay, I would like to draw attention towards what media is showing and what it is ignoring and also what can be done to prevent media from doing such things and as such affecting the society as a whole. I would like to give some examples from the newspapers about how media is throwing its bombshells on public.