the Media-Angel or Evil?

Look around the classroom.

Felix is running through today’s newspaper; Wendy is making a phone call to make sure where to meet her friends at canteen; Unicorn is online, searching for an appropriate picinic place to spend our recess; …as for me, I am busy writing my blog on my laptop.

Our daily life is stuffed with all sorts of media, like newspapers, telephones, computers and TV. They play a rather vital role nowadays. Had they been taken away, how could we survive? It must be a nightmare. If our ancestors could travel ahead by a time machine to have a look at our present world, they must be shocked, or scared. It’s hard to understand that after a simple click on a little “mouse”, colorful pictures and videos dash out, “performing” on a bright “board”, while during their time not until a distant battle was over were they aware of what a bloody moment was happening around. But nowadays, as long as we want, even events taking place on the other hemisphere is not unavailable any longer. As we are dying for efficiency, information rushes to us in a frenetic pace by various high technologies.

However, negative effects are also obvious along with media’s convenience. For example, some bad businessmen making big profit by spreading plenty of pronographic pictures or videos. We have to admit that it’s not practical to purge all the unhealthy information on the internet. As the recent event, a sharp conflict between Chinese censorship and google engine leads to a serious deadlock. Through google, a great deal unhealthy source is exposed to the mass, among whom are countless juveniles lacking of self control. There’s no difficulty telling whether it’s good or not. In addition, the fast spread speed and unreliability result in problems as well. Just a few days ago, “Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni ‘both having affairs’!” hit the headline of many “mainstream” newspapers. This topic was so hot that it arrived at every corner of the world immediately. Yet, later it was revealed that the original news came from an unknown twitter. It was all made up by an intern journalist to test how fast a piece of unproved news would be spread through internet. It’s merely a trick! I guess, the test result has said everything successfully. Well, who is the most responsible for the slander? The tiny intern journalist who played the trick, the mainstream newspapers which brought the unproved gossip to the public, or the innocent-looking internet which actually offers a hotbed? It’s hard to give a non-controversial conclusion.

Old time people lived in a more pure world than we, whereas they didn’t have the joy and excitement of surfing on the highest wave of fast imformation as we have. Which life is better, who knows?