Monday, October 22, 2012

The Morning News


by Cedric Joshua L. Martinez

"GOOD MORNING PHILIPPINES!" signals the start of almost every morning news in our country.

A great number of Filipinos wake up in front of their television sets as they take in both breakfast and whatever the news present to us. For elementary and high school students, watching the morning news could give them recitation points on their SIBIKA, HEKASI or Social Science class. For Mass Communication students (like myself)
it is our obligation to be updated on current issues and events in our country and for a normal Juan/Juana watching the morning news can give them something to talk about with whoever they would like to talk to.


And as I tune in to a certain morning news program, I watched how it devastated my positive insight for the day. VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS, KIDNAPPING, RAPE and DEATH DUE TO NATURAL CATASTROPHE. Is this what they would want us to take in with us as we go to school, to work and to our community? Is this what they would want us to think based on the Agenda Setting Theory? Is this the kind of "healthy news" that they would want to present?


My friends, I am not saying that such negative information should be kept out of news. But what I am trying to question in this article is the way that today's media focus more on negative information that directly affects our insight today. A little balance between positive and negative information could be a determining factor on how we perform our daily tasks and obligations. Perhaps a little bit of positive information can go a long way and contribute to development and change both internally and externally.

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