Media Culture

MEDIA CULTURE It is imperative to foster conscious awareness among individuals, enabling them to engage in right thinking and critical analysis, so that they may arrive at correct opinions on their own. I n the contemporary age, ‘media culture’ is arguably the primary factor responsible for the corruption of people’s mindset. A central feature of the modern media, be it print, electronic, or digital, is the method of one-sided reporting. Because most people obtain news from the media, on account of one-sided reporting in the media, they develop faulty opinions. They form their opinions on the basis of one-sided reporting. One-sided reporting involves selecting bad news and ignoring good news. The media has the status of an industry. On account of this, it regards highlighting the bad news of any country or society as profitable while good news is not considered worthy of being reported. This behaviour of the media has made human thinking negative all across the world. Consider an interesting and insightful example in this regard. I often listen to the broadcasts of BBC