Media in our lives

My last post was a poem in sympathy for the AIDS patient and my understanding for them. Now, this article is my views on the effect of the media on common people, as a student of media. I hope it would be of some help to you.





Article:                         Influence Of Media on Today’s Youth

As the maxim goes, ‘Man proposes, God disposes’, but it would be far more appropriate to say in today’s society that ‘Media proposes, public disposes’. The media portrays itself as a refulgent personality in the very heart of contemporary society. Media comes across as an apotheosis due to the celerity in raking up subjects after subjects. What subject to perceive or not to perceive is totally rested with us.

Media brings in awareness be it for a good or bad animadversion. For eg.reports or articles on famous personalities and sports victories sell like hot-cakes, while news on rapes, murders is not of the public choice. Thus, public can eclat whatever they like or they can be averse towards what they dislike.

The media brings forth various proposals one after another to accept it or deny it is the public’s choice. Today’s youth personality, temperament, behavior, whatever else you might call it, is built by the way the youth, ill-habited youth have accepted and acclaimed the negative side of media. Only a few days ago, a girl from Uttar Pradesh ran from her house inspired by Ekta Kapoor’s serials to act in Bollywood. She was finally propelled into prostitution.

As for the public, cursing the media or creating a kerfuffle out of media issues would not help the cause of children going into the wrong way. They must guide their children while TV viewing so that they do not get drifted away in a negative way. They must make them non-fragile and teach them to distinguish and isolate bad influence from the good.