I've hesitated for a long time before doing a "short" article about this subject. About 5 months ago (or something like that) I've seen a video from the amazing channel HackingSocial (this channel is simply awesome) that talks about the way TV and media in general use a dramatic form for their articles in ordre to catch the attention of the audience. Here is the video, it is extremely interesting and might open your eyes on some things used in media (sorry the video is in French).
So here I don't want to be a long presentation, the video explains eveyrthing. so here I want to make a debate: this method is clearly wrong, but do you think that media could use a technique close to this one without polluting the mind of the spectators?
Personally, I have a relatevely low opinion on TV and informations channel like Fox News or BFM TV, particularly during major events, where they are just like hunting for the most unsignificant thing in order to make it big. Now, I think that this method is clearly wrong (just like the study show in the video, people are being affraid for nothing) and might even lead to -dangerous- behaviors like people wanting to get a gun because they feel unsafe (hi the USA!), discriminating a cathegory of people because of a minoirty of insane psycopath, showing a diffrent (most of time false) angle about a certain event, distracting people from real real matters in the country like corrupted politicians, etc... But I do think that other methods can be good to attract people, like showing exceptional news, or talking about other subjects... But now, I think that this role is more and more attributed to the Internet rather than TV.
I won't be any longer, there is a lot of things to say on this subject and I'd be glad to hear your opinions.
Bye Charlie, don't fall in this kind of traps ;)
Hey, I can't watch the video right now because I'm already late on things I got to do, though just by reading your article I totally see your point. I think there are a lot of ways informational supports are attracting people “at one sight” (I'm not sure that's correct) , sometimes (or maybe most of the time) exaggerating or as you said, making something enormous out of a detail.. Anyway the problem is that it's the “mainstream” news writers' job, sadly, the earnings are sometimes prevailing on the information itself. On another hand, some persons, as my brother, think it is more of a strategy to keep the French people on a leash … Which I get, I just don't want to be paranoiac over every articles I read on internet or wherever so I just try to keep my mind as clear as possible and take some steps back on things. However, I'll watch this video as soon as possible and maybe recommend it to my brother. Bye :)
ReplyDeleteomg that was super interesting, thank you for sharing this. i already saw something like this in the past but well, i didn't think it was that serious. this video was really great.
ReplyDeleteINCREDIBLE !It looks like a very serious video, well documented. This year in Seconde we are going to work on the media so this is really helpfull . Thank you.
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