We live in a world where bad news is good news for the media. As I live and learn in the eternal hope of making a career in the media someday, I have been taught this principle over and over, Conflict, pain, suffering, tragedy, turmoil are all essential ingredients for a good news story.
Is it the media just providing the public what they want, or is it the media determining, cultivating and dictating to their audience what they should see or is it just media's unfounded assumption that only bad news sells?
TRP ratings say otherwise.
Have we become sadistic and voyeuristic, taking pleasure and being entertained by the trauma others have suffered? Or have we always been this way and the media has got our pulse and is just making hay?
I just got thinking about all this when I caught myself thinking terrible things. I was saying to myself, "Why is Bournemouth such quiet, peaceful town? God!! Nothing ever happens in here. I need something drastic for the news stories to be handed in at the university this week"
Its precisely then that I realised; I am part of the system. Or maybe, I have always been.
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