The bad effects of 24 hour television news

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News have become indispensable in people’s life that it cannot be escaped anymore. Especially in these days while issues in the world have become intense. We all find ourselves switching over regular channel to the news channels. Without realizing 24- hour news channels affect us or not, we become addicted to these channels. Social analysts examine and investigate how 24 hour news channels affect people. While we spend most of our times spend on watching news channels we should have some questions in our minds to criticize 24 hour news channels. How do we know that the news that we watch on TV are true or not? How do we know that they are not biased or manipulated by specific groups? How do we realize this situation? While we are facing with crises that happen in the world isn’t it turn on news channel become hard or stressful every day? Are we sure that we are not affected by news psychologically? If these questions are asked it is not difficult to see that 24 –hour news channels create bad effects on journalism, government’s policy and people’s psychology.
Ethics of journalism is one of the most important criteria for a reliable news which requires accuracy and trustworthiness. Before television, when we learn something from someone we usually got used to searching for source of the news and learn if it is true or not. But nowadays, we watch news on channels which give 24 hour news broadcast. People usually think that these channels are professional at journalism and whether they show us is true because it is their province. Nonetheless, with emerge of 24 hour news channels “news” has become something commercial and something that they can profit from it. 24- Hour channels have started to compete each other for audience. These n...

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...udience start to feel like watching a drama and it turned people to a passive viewers.
24 hours news broadcasting is reduced the quality of journalism and changed the aim of news. Also it penetrates the armies’ strategies in order to make good at ratings and instead of showing news it affects people’s ideas and the way of countries policy. Thirdly, showing all of the news constantly 24 hour may affect people’s psychology negatively. As a consequences of this reasons 24 hour news cycling has bad effects on society and individuals. To prevent these effects, there would be a supervisory for news, and news channels. 24 hour is a long period and to reduce the decrease in the quality of news there can be a committee for each channel where social scientists, psychologists, political scientists check the context of the news and obstruct possible effects may come from them.

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