Censorship can never be justified. Do you agree?

Yes, i agree to a small extent.

Censorship: A topic that has brought about several controvesarial issues in our society recently.

The topic of 'Censorship' is a subject that has been discussed many times, be it local context or even overseas. For example, even within our nation alone, many had commented about censorship in our local television programmes broadcast on Channel 8.

Some claimed that there has been too much censorship in the drama serials that it has ''eroded'' entertainment, that is suppose to incorporate in these shows. Many had also commented that there's too much censorship in the rating of the movie. For example, the movie 'The Da Vinci Code' was rated NC16. The reason for the move: It was to prevent the influence of religious belief.

However, others refute that censorship is there to protect young children (aged 6-10, in my opinion) from programmes that exhibit images of violence, killings and etc.

But my question is how much so could censorship change our perspective of violence and other 'censored' programmes. On a daily basis, we are exposed to various forms of influence be it directly or indirectly.

the problem with modern media is that they do not have a sense of social justice. do you agree?

Yes, i agree to this question to a moderate extent.

In my opinion, modern media would go out, by hook or by crook, to increase readership and improve sales. This seems to be their ultimate goal now, instead of providing the basic needs of what media is about: reporting news and providing entertainment. This is a very sad issue on the whole, in my opinion, as a sense of social justice has been lost in this process to attain material goals, i.e to generate readership and sales.

One recent case can be the usage of the content in Singapore's well known blogger's blog, Xiaxue, to generate readership. Xiaxue had met with an unfortunate incident in M'sia and had written the process in her blog. Somehow, the Wanbao stumbled onto these piece of news from her blog and decided to publish it in the papers.

I am aghast and at the same time disgusted at what i have just

1) Censorship can never be justified. Do you agree?
2) The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?

Question 2:

I do not agree. Our media is not corrupting our society. Perhaps, it is indeed true that the media does affect our perception on some issues sometimes. However, i do not think that things would get out of hand and evolved to become a corruption to our society.

Corruption is defined as certain viewpoints being sometimes accused deviated from some older correct view. (from Wikipedia) Somehow, my question is whether would it be too harsh to say that our society is corrupted by media, propaganding and changing people's mindsets in some way or another.

Media has a huge impact in our lives as they can influence people with the type or genre of news which they report. In a nutshell, media can either make or break a person.