Media has been dominating the way of audiences’ thoughts for decades, especially since the television has created in 20th century. A terrible fact, which still exists, is that somehow the multifarious media easily influences people, which is unwise that some of them don’t choose positive programs. Or some media is inclined to influence what people think, just like brainwashing effect, are now highly taken account by anthropologists and certain group of people. The media should be carefully regulated base on the diverse of culture backgrounds and ethics issues.
Children and teenagers are groups of people who are likely highly affected under the certain amount exposure of TV programs. That is, they are not mature enough to choose the programs, which are suitable for their age. Consequently, parents often pay much attention to the TV program choosing for them. Nonetheless, it’s impossible that parents can spend 24/7 watching their children, so that’s why GIO, Taiwan[1] classifies TV programs into many levels and regulates some of them only can be played after midnight.
In addition, there are so many disagreements about ethics, religions, and political issues among people in a country. It’s media industries’ responsibility to reduce the opportunity that can cause people fight for any susceptible subject. For example, people in Taiwan are sensitive about political issues, which are bickering for so many years between two major political parties, Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party. The obvious preference can be shown easily in Taiwan’s society, and this unique phenomenon sometimes is visible in TV stations and newspapers. People can be misled due to some subjective comments and rumors. Unfortunately, I can see many Taiwanese like to fight against someone who has different political opinions rudely. As a result, it is easily to kill someone verbally or to cause unnecessarily argument if we don’t carefully regulate the media.
TV series and movies are often considered as art. They became popular since the television has been created and the film making technique has been well developed in 20th century. They sometime make impressive shows to help people to recall some memories, whatever they’re positive or negative. In contrast, some of them create the story that is not true and will probably cause conflicts among people. For instance, a popular movie, Angels and Demons, which is revised from its original novel version, uses the idea of a historical conflict between science and religion, particularly that between the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church.[2]Such critical topic should be careful used in whatever literature or dramas, or it will bring significant conflicts to us.
In short, media or any artwork has crucial influences to audiences verbally and visually. Carefully choosing TV programs helps us to absorb inappropriate information. It’s not even morally fair to entertain people by making movies to step on someone’s pain, so it is also important for filmmakers to consider all the sensitive issues that may offend audiences before making movies.
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