Television News

             How important is it for people to watch the television news? It is very important for people to watch the television news because the news helps people keep up with the events around the world, and the news lets people be aware of what happen in our society. I personally do not like to watch the news because I think it is a boring program, and it is a waste of time to watch its. But my father is the opposite from I am because every morning at 7 o'clock, he always watches the CNN Headline News or the Fox News before he goes to work. I always wondered in my mind what it is about the news that he likes so much. But after I had read the essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman, now I understand the desire or the entertainment contains in the news that attracts my father and many other television news's viewers. But in order for television news's viewers not to be misleading by the news shows, they must be aware of the difference between the news and the entertainments. Or whether, the entertainment source with the news component or the news source with the entertainment component.
             The importance step that news's viewers must pay attention to when they watch the news is what types of stories that the news shows represent. According to Neil Postman, when the news show represents the disaster stories they had not taken it seriously, and it is all about fun. He declared that,
             "This is why even on news shows which provide us daily with fragments of tragedy and barbarism, we are argued by the newscasters to 'join them tomorrow.' What for? One would think that several minutes of murder and mayhem would suffice as material for a month of sleepless nights. We accept the newscasters' invitation because we know that the 'news' is not to be taken seriously, that it is all in fun, so to say. Everything about a news show tells u...

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