mass media

mass media really influence our daily life alot. (:
i am like glued to the televsion once i reach home. (:
and when was in secondary school, my friends and i would always learn songs sung on advertisments. it was so fun. (: we even create our own advertisment (live ones) in class. haha. we can advertise for anything and everything that we want to. and we learn all these from the media.

true that we choose things that benefits us from the media. those that doesnt affect us doesnt influence. sometimes we wont believe that a piece of news is true because it is not happening to us.

media also filter too many news, which might be important to us. they refuse to let us know because they dun wan it to affect our thinking. and this make us exposed lesser to the "outside world".

luckily there is internet, where you can read news from all over the world. and the more you are exposed to, really makes you fear more. and living in this kind of fear is sometimes good and sometimes bad. it makes you either cherish more or fear more. like news of how many people around the world is starving. it doesn't affect us directly because we dunno what is it like to be starving, but, it does makes u cherish more. cherish whatever we have in singapore.

before i joined my volunteer work, i am someone who don't watch news, i dun care about what is happenin to singapore, and of course in other countries. then after i joined my volunteer work, i saw so many things happening around the world that i nv know. at first i didnt think about it, because i wasnt affected directly. but as i saw more and more news, i start to fear and cherish more. i cherish the fact that i live in singapore. in singapore, we didnt have to worry about natural disasters, we have food to it, we have shelter over our head, we can get what we want. but it made me fear, because i also know that global warming is affecting every country. whetether u are rich or whether you are poor. what have the poor done to suffer what the rich has done wrong. fear that singapore, a country that hasnt been through anything at all, to suffer because of being naive and being blinded.

it is good to live in "good fear", because you learn to find solutions and take actions instead of sitting there and wait for things to happen and regret.

the medium the media used also affect the way we see the world and affect how we perceive what is more important than the other. comparing an advertisement advertised on TV and on a small corner of the newspaper, the one on the TV would definitely attract us more. and we will remember the company and the more it is advertised, it make us think that "that brand seems to be a better brand". that might not be true, but people who have no knowledge about the product will think that way. although now we wont be so "silly" anymore because we research before we buy anything. (:

if u dun read up more, you will always think that whatever the media is saying are the only things that are happening. i use to think that PAP is the only political party in singapore. they control everything. and all great people comes from this party. which is so naive. because i didnt bother to read up. but when i grow up. i realise that actually quite alot of pple support opposition party as well. and views suggested by them might not be bad, but people jus dun wan to accept them because they are not the one controlling singapore.

mass media is created for good cause because it let us know what is happening in the world around us. but i also think that it is something bad, becuase whatever we know might not be true. and this lead us to discriminate a race, nation who are actually great nation or great people. (: