Impact of Reappearance of Breaking News on Television Channels
14 Pages Posted: 30 May 2019
Date Written: May 29, 2019
Abstract
Television has become an integral part of present human life wherein it plays a dual and important role of providing updated information as well as educating the users. It also helps to create a conscious group of people in society by providing them timely updates. Various television channels provide a wide and live coverage 24/7 to the users thereby providing them repeated telecast of news which might have been missed by the people. Undoubtedly it provides the updated and latest news within no wastage of tome along with living coverage it has many disadvantages. The impact of watching the violence and actual death scenes repeatedly may cause psychological disturbances and lend to health hazards. The present paper attempts to study the impact which the repeated news based on various crimes have on society. A questionnaire has been prepared and circulated to various users. The data which has been collected has been analyzed and few suggestions have been put forth. The results of the study reveal that people prefer positive journalism wherein only authentic and unbiased information is delivered to them. They have suggested that repetition of crime news should be controlled and monitored.
Keywords: television, news channels, media, crime news
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