THE PROBLEM WITH MEDIA IS THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE A SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. Do u agree?

According to www.dictionary.com, social justice means" the moral principle determining just conduct pertaining to the life, welfare, and relations of human beings in a community" I personally feel that media do not have a sense of justice.

Media is given the responsibility of reporting the truth and facts to the public so as to increase awareness of the events that is happening around us. It is through media that the public can get more knowledge. But are they doing their job?

Media tends to distort facts based on their monetary benefits. In order to increase total revenue, to get more people to read their news articles, they report news that captivate the attention of the speaker. An example would be the case of the Virginia Tech incident. The media did not practice social responsibility and social justice, and even reveal the video content that was actually not to be disclosed to public.

Also, because of fear for authority, media did not live up to the expectation of being the watchdog for democracy. In the case of the violent persecution of Falun Gong in China, the media chose to reveal that the chinese authority did not torture the practitioner but instead they commited suicide. Because of fear, they chose to take the easy and more convenient way out. So how exactly have they displayed social justice?

Therefore, i feel that media does not have a sense of social justice as they only considered their own benefits instead of doing what they should be doing- reporting the truth to the public.

The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?

The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?

How do we define corrupting? We defined corrupting as destroying or subverting the honesty or integrity of something. So is media corrupting our society? I shuld take it as a YEs.

Media is affecting all areas of our lives, since we live in the era where communication, broadcastings were common. We get both facts and opinions from what we see and hear from the media. Media is a form of propaganda that often is guilty of misleading their people with distortions, exaggerations, subjectivity, inaccuracy and even fabrications, in order to receive their support, in order to increase their sales, eg is the NKF issue . The extensive report on TT Durai caused a commotion and changed the public's view of NKF.

Media is so influential that if a author writes a biased article, u will tend to find yourself swaying towards the author's stand.

Also, since media is given the authority as a watchdog of democracy, there is no one to watch over it, no one to ensure that media themselves practice free media and democracy. They might just report things that are beneficial to the company as a whole, rather than for the benefit of the readers. in addition, journalists face threats of censorship, beatings and even death for reporting issues that may be controversial or not in the interests of power holders.

Therefore, i took a stand, that media is corrupting the society.They report news for monetary benefits and forget about their job ethnics. They forget the importance of reporting true accounts to their readers, giving them one-sided stories.

It is difficult to get rid of prejudice.Discuss.


Prejudice is defined as unreasonable dislike and distrust of people who are different from you in some way.

Prejudice can be illustrated through the example of Chinese who still take grudges against the Japanese soldiers that invaded China during World War 2. After the war, the Chinese was angry at how humiliated they were, by the Japanese soldiers. They called the Japanese soldiers " ri ben gui zi" which means Japaneses ghost. Even till now,decades has passed, yet Japanese soldiers are still known as the Japanese ghosts.

Also, it can be seen in the scenario whereby people have the stereotyped thinking that the whites are more superior than the blacks.Ever since the 16th century to the early 20th century,blacks were kept as slaves in the European countries by the whites. Although the blacks are more capable than the whites, they are not accepted by the society and were often seen as 2nd class citizens.

Another incident could be the conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. Tamils were being treated as 2nd class to the Sinhalese. Even though they performed better than the Sinhalese, they were not given jobs in government service.what does this shows? The Sinhalese were bias against the Tamils, they believed that they should be more privileged than the Tamils.

Since the ideas of prejudices have been instilled into people’s heart, it is a very difficult task to influence the person as we are all from prejudiced families. It cannot be totally uprooted. Only the negative impacts of prejudice could be prevented by educating people to allow them to think in a more mature way. But the idea in the public’s mind of prejudice can never be removed, unless they are being brainwashed by some major events.