Can we say that?
A look at how censorship affects the media
Issue date: 12/4/09 Section: Opinion
What is the truth? Do we ever get all sides of a story?
The use of censorship has become a wide spread practice in society because it causes people to only gain certain information instead of all sides of a topic, story or issue.
Censorship is the practice of officially examining books, movies and etc and suppressing unacceptable parts.
Censorship occurs directly such as banning of a book or information or indirectly by an author who does not include a part of his or her book in order to refrain from offense.
By the time any source of information reaches the public, several people have already filtered the information potentially altering the actual news or removing necessary information.
One problem with suppressing unacceptable material is determining who should get to determine what is or is not unacceptable material to be censored. Then, once information starts to become censored where is the line drawn in the sense of how extreme censorship will be taken.
Also, by allowing censorship to occur, the people who are in charge of censoring what is available to the public get to determine what material the public can handle. However, how do they truly know what the public is capable of handling?
The media are strongly affected by censorship. Most media outlets such as the newspapers, radio stations and television broadcasts have changed the way they relay information to the public.
Another effect that censorship is having on the media is sensationalism, which has become another problem in how the news in being portrayed. The stories that are being covered in the media are being hyped up in order to get ratings, which are causing no "real" news to get reported.
So much of the particular stories are being covered over the real news are just based on which will get more ratings. Also, with the change in the economy, more and more news is being posted on the web instead of in newspapers, which is causing certain stories to be covered because they will generate more hits.
The use of censorship has become a wide spread practice in society because it causes people to only gain certain information instead of all sides of a topic, story or issue.
Censorship is the practice of officially examining books, movies and etc and suppressing unacceptable parts.
Censorship occurs directly such as banning of a book or information or indirectly by an author who does not include a part of his or her book in order to refrain from offense.
By the time any source of information reaches the public, several people have already filtered the information potentially altering the actual news or removing necessary information.
One problem with suppressing unacceptable material is determining who should get to determine what is or is not unacceptable material to be censored. Then, once information starts to become censored where is the line drawn in the sense of how extreme censorship will be taken.
Also, by allowing censorship to occur, the people who are in charge of censoring what is available to the public get to determine what material the public can handle. However, how do they truly know what the public is capable of handling?
The media are strongly affected by censorship. Most media outlets such as the newspapers, radio stations and television broadcasts have changed the way they relay information to the public.
Another effect that censorship is having on the media is sensationalism, which has become another problem in how the news in being portrayed. The stories that are being covered in the media are being hyped up in order to get ratings, which are causing no "real" news to get reported.
So much of the particular stories are being covered over the real news are just based on which will get more ratings. Also, with the change in the economy, more and more news is being posted on the web instead of in newspapers, which is causing certain stories to be covered because they will generate more hits.
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