Nowadays every single channel is talking about war on terrorism, government issues, economic crisis etc. Such happenings and horrifying news is having a bad impact on children’s mind due to which they are under much mental stress eventually affecting their studies and normal lives.
Secondly, if we look at this issue with different perspective like Pakistani channels are promoting western culture more than Pakistani culture. Youth is more influenced by it and is adopting their ways and few of which are actually unethical and against our religious values and morals. Other than this, Pakistani movies and stage dramas are depicting a negative image of Pakistani culture. The stage dramas in the name of comedy are exploiting women’s image in a worse way and humiliating their existence.
The question which need to be answered is why our youth is more influenced by media in a negative way and forgetting their moral values and identity?
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This is a very well stated and a very important issue that needs to be addressed like the youth is the torch light for our country negative images and negative up bringing mainly because of the media they see can leave paksitan into immature and un reliable hands.
ReplyDeleteMedia bears a great responsibility when it comes to grooming and nourshing minds of the youth .as far as the stage dramas are concerned it is a totally different topic because they are catering to a totally different market and people having entirely different set of mind.
The amount of media coverage that currently prevails in the industry is large in density ,we see so many channels today and the amount of news they share tends to reflect the image of our country .
ReplyDeleteYes i agree that there is something called as media empowerement but that is just no excuse to give and publish news even about the most sensitive issues that exist today .
The September 11 atrocity sent shockwaves around the world. The reactions were understandably a mixture of emotions and rage. The media had the challenging task to help people understand the events, and in the on-going war on terror that resulted, had an important role to help provide wide perspectives and understandings of the aftermath of those attacks.
There are many more, as the various articles in the war on terror section on the whole describe, but the effects lead to the influence of public opinion and accepting the various policies in the name of the war on terror, whether they are appropriate or not. That is not to say that there should be absolutely nothing done about the terrorist acts, but that the discussion involving appropriate response, based on enough information has been lacking. A narrow range of discourse may produce heated debates within that range, but would lack a wider range of discussion and possibilities of both understanding causes and the consequences of carrying out certain actions.
ReplyDeleteEffects of violence in the Media
ReplyDeleteWhen we watch Tv or a movie we usually see many images of violence and people hurting others. The problem with this is that it can become traumatic especially in our children as we see it more and more. Our kids that are starting to grow and are shaping their personality values and beliefs can become aggressive or they can lose a sense of reality and fiction of what they are seeing.
In the past years there have been some cases of kids carrying a gun at school and even hurting others with it. Those kids have been linked to excessive use of violent video games and war images.
Another problem is that real war is used as a form of entertainment by the media, we should make our kids and teen aware that war is not a form of entertainment and that there is no win or lose like in video games, in real war everyone lose.
As I have said above, the media has a huge impact on society and also in public opinion. They can shape the public opinion in different ways depending of what is the objective.
ReplyDeleteFor example, after the attacks of 911 the media gave a huge coverage of the event and exposed Osama guilty for the attack as they were told by the authorities. This shaped the public opinion to support the war on terrorism, the same happened with the war on Iraq. The problem is that if media received un accurate information then the public opinion supported a wrong cause, this is the power of public opinion influence.
Other ways to influence are with polls and trends, especially in political campaigns. The candidates that can pay for more tv and media exposure have more influence on public opinion and thus can receive more votes.
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ReplyDeletePeople actually don’t use their minds. They believe what they hear and form opinions. No one actually knows the reality or true facts behind issues or happenings. Media can easily misguide people if it presents wrong side of things.
ReplyDeleteWell actually the culture of Pakistan is itself a lot deviated from our religious values. And if we look at the glamorous world (eg. stage dramas, movies and plays etc), there is always a certain level of indecency in it no matter what culture is being represented in them. We need to put our focus on developing values of modesty in our nation, rather than placing so much emphasis on which culture is better than the other.
ReplyDeleteno doubt, our culture doesnt really depict our religious values but media can play a vital role in promoting our culture and values rather adopting other cultures.
ReplyDeleteIt is everywhere you look. Turn on the television, it’s there. Go to a movie, it’s there. Even a cartoon that a five year old watches is filled with it. Media violence. Movie plots often revolve around violence and television programs are making violence increasingly more popular. The witnessing of daily acts of violence is now taking a toll on the youth of today.
ReplyDeleteIn today’s society children spend approximately 28 to 32 hours a week watching television or going to the movies. This is the same amount of time they spend on an average week in school. Undoubtedly, this makes the media one of the most influential forces in a children’s life.
ReplyDeleteAn additional negative effect of media violence is the probability of the children becoming more aggressive later in life.
ReplyDeleteA personal comment I want to make here.. if you guys out there think that media is indeed having a negative impact on our minds.. quitting watching television is not really as hard as it sounds in the beginning.. and besides we have better things to do in life.!
ReplyDeleteYeah. Atleast we can try to abstain from watching indecent television shows.
ReplyDeleteAnd before we even talk about American and Western channels, please people stop watching INDIAN DRAMAS!
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ReplyDeleteDemage our society culture and huminity
ReplyDeleteMedia have many defferent bad effect in our society as like bad effect on culture and also bad effect on childern as well as we look terrorist
ReplyDeleteThis was very informative, I have also written something like this in my blog which is on effect of violence on TV on our minds.
ReplyDeletehttps://newfreeplace.blogspot.com/2018/06/effect-of-violence-and-horror-shown-on.html
It was a brief atempt on my side, not as good as yours but you could visit it and see my effort.
Overall, loved your post and way of writing
Great Blog! Read how Pakistani Media is Busy Covering The Celebrity Weddings That Happened This Year Rather Than Education and give your valuable feedback!
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