Minna Räty - Is Today's Television A Source Of Entertainment Or A Source Of Information?

Is Today's Television A Source Of Entertainment Or A Source Of Information?

 

            Few decades ago, television was the only source of information, where you could get the information and see the picture in the same time. That is why everybody were following the news from the televison. Nowadays, televisor just stands in the corner of the room to just watch the movies and soap operas, everybody uses the internet to find out the news, which they are interested in.

            Firstly, you can search all the information from Internet. If you visit some newspaper's homepage, you can just read the titles and you can open only those news, which interest you. On the Internet, you can also say, what you think about some article, although some people are using the anonymity to post cruel comments. Watching the news, you can not just skip the stories. You have to watch them all. For example. Estonian news Reporter is a show, where they talk half an hour about celebrities and cute animals, but they do not talk so much about the serious news. If you want to know, what is happening in the world, you have to follow some serious news agency.

            Moreover, from the Internet, you can also hear the different opinions. The news services can be very subjective and when you hear only one opinion, you may be wrong or brainwashed.  Therefore, I use the Internet to get my news and use television to watch movies. It is more comfortable to watch movies from the televisor instead of the computer monitor. Our generation is used to watch movies from TV, because we all watched cartoons, when we were little.

            On the other hand, there are still people, who tend to get their information from television instead of the Internet. Many old people are not used to surf on the internet, that is why they are reading the newspapers, listening to the radio or watching the televisor. They prefer the television because you can not see the picture from the radio and the articles in the newspaper may be little bit boring to read. When the news are about some catastrophe, they want to see debris of the buildings. Reading the interview is never so excting than watching it, because you can see the reactions and people's expression.

            To sum up, I think that in the future, people get all their news from the Internet. Already now there are lot of entertaining shows, which people like to watch, for example reality shows. But I think there always are some people, who prefer watching the news from the television, because yellow news services are mixing entertainment and information, that is why Reporter is so popular in Estonia.