In today’s world, majority of the people have lost the habit of reading newspapers as well as watching TV news due to the ease of access to news and information from the internet. This essay will address the negative effects as well as the positive effects and will expand upon why the positves have to be looked upon.
The practice of reading newspapers should always be encouraged as it not only gives detailed news but also improves the reading. The TV news channels also help in giving instant news in the locality as well as a lot of other news that is happening worldwide. However, with the advent of the internet, it could be said that the world has become a much smaller place because of how quick the information could be accessed. The major problem in this would be the legitimacy of the news as misinformation could be spread at a faster rate across the globe.
That being said, if an individual is aware of the misinformations being spread and which sources are to be looked upon, this could have a tremendous positive impact on that individual. The reason I say this is because there is chance for people to learn a lot more information from the internet apart from reading just the news article. For example, a political news might grab the attention of a person and while reading the article, they might not understand the news to its fullest extent and they might require an additional context for it. In such cases, they could just search for more and more articles and news snippets that might be related to this which would help them gain more knowledge.
In conclusion, the reduction in the habit of reading news papers and watching TV news is the resultant of ease of access to the news from the internet but in my opinion, this could have a positive impact in the development provided that the people double check the information that they read on the internet and by choosing reliable sources for getting the news.