Many people are quick to blame the media for its inaccuracy, sensationalizing of news and sometimes even its blatant bias on some occasions. While people do have the right, and on many occasions do so, to voice their displeasure at this complete lack of objectivity, is it really just the media’s fault that media is in the state that it is now?

With the advancements happening everyday in technology and with it the demand for instant news as it happens, and with thousands of news stations on air competing to for the top spot, the race for ratings seems to be at the top of the agenda for most news stations. Is it any wonder that despite the faster the media is in reporting news the more wrong they can be when reporting it? Many people will complain about this, but just how many is enough?

While most of the people who have studied media or have an interest in it will feel disappointed upon watching sensationalized or bias news, most other people won’t probably care that much, and unfortunately these other people more or less are the majority.

A lot of people have become too lazy to analyze news, even I sometimes can’t be bothered about some news issues and accept them the way the media presents them. Perhaps it is this attitude that many people have that has allowed much of the media to be plagued by carelessness. The fact that most of us don’t demand objective news, and that more people are attracted more by how attractive the anchor person is, or by the amazing graphics that some news channels use and all other trivial matters have made us a little more interested in the more trivial things of presenting the news.

It seems that people just want to have the basic idea of the news, instead of knowing the whole story, many will suffice with a short version, or even how to comprehend the issue by presenting it to them on a sliver plate. Look at all the news analysts that come on news stations. They analyze everything! I know that’s what they have come on the program to do, but many people use the opinions that are given by the analysts as their own instead of making up their own opinion.

Why has the much of the news become the way it has today? It is most likely that this is because of money, more than likely. Why have we let it get this way? Perhaps we have only ourselves to blame? Were we careless? Uninterested? Or was it just out of anyone’s control to do anything about it?

Is there anything that can be done now to make a more promising media in the future? That all depends on a great deal of things. Will people start becoming more proactive in asking for better quality of news or will they suffice for what is presented as long as they can watch reruns of “Friends” and “Seinfeld”? Are people going to become more active members of society by contributing more and by being so they will need more information about events, hence demanding for more accurate news?

This of course is merely a very simplified view on one of the problem that affects the media. In the end though, whose fault is it that the media has become the way it is? What do you think?