Friday, May 11, 2007

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

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