'You' and the 'News'

Might sound like old news, but the relationship between the news and what I like to call real people , has shifted through the years.The news use to consist of a guy telling you what had happened that day, with the help of some reporters, graphics and a irritating weatherman. The news basically consisted of a bunch of facts.

Real people, i.e.. us, didn't get much of a look unless we witness something important happen. But in late 70's and 80's, this began to change and real people began to have more of an input.More and more, it became true that real peoples questioning of facts could help move stories forward for the journalists. From this point on there opinion where solicited, whether interesting of not.

Looking back at old vox-pox, its striking how unemotional and objective people sounded-, perhaps because the public thought thats what the news expected of them.That situation gradually changed and more and more the public emotion became the central focus of a story itself.

Inadvertently, what the news was doing was driving a wedge between normal people and emotional demonstrative and some might say reactive people. And its this group that has had an effect on the news agenda.

In affect the journalists and the public have swapped places. And instead of offering factual summary of events, that we can form an emotional opinion on, they are asking us for our emotional opinion and then incorporating it into there factual summary. That's why we are now asked more and more these days for our opinions.

* There you go something to be aware of when you see some rambling moron giving there opinion on a news vox-pox*

Television,Love and Relationships

Everyone wants someone to love them. Even though no-one knows what love is. Do you know? Now I don't want to go into a rant here but...

When you are trying to work out whether you are in love or not, its' natural to compare how you feel, with what you've being taught and about how being in love feels. And who taught you about how being in love feels? Well, without ever trying, the television[Media] bombarded you with misguided notions about romance, the moment you were first naive enough to swivel you eyes in its direction.

According to research when it comes to getting information about love, most turn to television, while some ask mum and the rest ask dad. But the plug-in parent is a liar[and to an extent,so are your mum and dad], and the fictional world it portrays seeps into you skull, setting a misguided framework.

Entering relationships with wildly unrealistic expectations is a guaranteed way of sabotaging your blossoming relationship. Studies have shown that there is a link between the amount of television that people watch and the likelihood that they will believe certain unhelpful relationship myths. Chief among these myths is the notion that there is a singular 'soul-mate' out there in the world for you. The thought that out of the billions of people in the world, theres only one that belongs to you seems really, really, really, really stupid. But then again it isn't. But it is.

Television[ Media] has warped your notions of physical beauty by parading inordinately attracive people in front of you , morning, noon and night. Thus raising your expectations to an unsustainable high, while simultaneously making you feel inferior.Its telling, when you encounter someone attractive in real life, they seem faintly unreal, as if somehow photo-shoped into your world by the media. And of course most of the people appearing in the media have being photo-shoped, tweaked and so on.

In adverts, attractive people are often presented as tantalising prizes, drawing admiring glances wherever they go. And unless you look like that, which statistically you probably don't, the unmistakable conclusion is that you don't match up. No wonder so many of us, simply don't know what to do when confronted by people we fancy in real life.

Then again, this is just an opinion, It could be wrong. Let me know what you think.

SOURCE/RESEARCH *HOW TV RUINED YOUR LIFE*