Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia

Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia
Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia

Thursday, April 12, 2012

The role of news in my life and society as a whole


Millions of people around the world are following the news every day and the numbers of people increase annually as more and more people start to learn about the beneficial of the news. There are many ways that people can expose to the news such as by newspapers, magazines, websites, radio, television and journals. The news keeps people up to date with the present situation around the world by providing more general knowledge and information about the events that are occurring every day around the world. Personally, I also like to follow the news every day as well since I find it is really useful and interesting for me to follow the news.
As I have noted, the news nowadays is usually mainly focus about the events that is happening now around the world, especially the bad ones.  From this view, I learnt that many people around the world now are curious to receive information about what is happening now around the world, both domestic and international. Without news, people would feel that they are just like the frog in the well. In this way, it would be hard for people to receive information about something which is far from them and the information could not spread widely without news. Moreover, the news can spread important information effectively to everyone like serious issues that is happening now in the world which need intervention by international force. For example, the news is putting concern about Iran’s nuclear program recently. I could see that most of the news is focus mainly about this issue.  It will be hard to forbid Iran from nuclear program if there are only a few countries petting concern about this issue. By using the power of the news, the world can quickly receive the information about this issue and most of the countries around the world now putting concern about this issue as a whole. It shows to me that the news can spread the information to everyone very fast and can get a lot of attention from people. People will pay less attention about some serious issues if the news does not exist as they could not reach to the information or there is not enough power to take control over those serious issues as the news can gather a lot of people’s attention around the world. Educated people are likely to follow the news rather than other people. When I have entered my university study, I am surprised that educated people are more likely to follow the news rather than uneducated people. I started to notice like this since I could see most of the instructors at my university are following the news every day and they often urge me and other students to follow the news too in order to wider our knowledge and the information that we get from the news will be useful for us in the future, for both study and work.
As a consequence, the news plays an important role in my life and also the society. Without the news, people will hardly to get the information very fast and they will live in a small society by not knowing about what is happing now in the other parts of the world. Coincidently, the news is really useful for the students as it can use as the references for their study and maybe for their careers in the future as well. Due to all these reasons, I highly recommend everybody to follow the news every day.        

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