By: Syrha Shane Sto. Domingo
Media plays a very important role in our political system
nowadays. maybe most of the people do appreciate and saw the importance of it.
If the government has a control
in media, for sure the government will take the advantage of it by putting
their wring actions into a situation where they will hide it from the
consciousness of the people and the worst thing happen is that they will put
the democratic system of our country at stake. It has tendency that the media
will be bias in terms of delivery of their news. For example, the news about
the case of death which is related to the campaign of our government '' war on
drugs'' has a big talked in our society right now. For instance, the TV Patrol
is one of the most popular news station in the Philippines, in their daily
reports i repeatedly saw and hear the same story of suspected drug addict's
death because they were killed by the police and according to the news they
were killed without seconds thought. There is news also about the war in
Marawi, about a police officer who falsely killed the unarmed young man in
person of Kian Delos Reyes. Is this negative news which is related to the
campaign of the president is being repeatedly delivered and they merely used it
against him.? Is this because they are affirmative on how our President handles
our country and on how he strongly implements his campaign against drugs? Or
it's because they want a different persona to be a president of this nation?
As what they would say media is
playing a big part in our society nowadays people are very dependent on it. It
is not new for us if people can get a false information and they will react on
it right away since it is the source of their daily information. But what
people should develop is their critical thinking skills before they would
believe in news flashed in the television they should listen to the both sides
of the story rather than to criticize right away so that they will not be
overpowered by the media.
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