TASK 1

I feel that the media plays a very important role in our society. The media is useful in spreading out information to the public, introducing new subjects, conveying thoughts to others, sometimes it even serves as propaganda, influencing and changing the mindsets of people. The most powerful effect of media is that it can control and change your actions and thoughts as it is almost anywhere, everywhere. The media comes in the form of televisions, radio, magazines, internet, the newspapers, books, advertisements and films, etc. The communication tools of media are basically in the form of images, sounds or words. The type of media displayed to us. the general public, depends on the extent of the censorship allowed by the government. Only the government has the power to limit the extent of censorship. i feel that censorship by the government is important because without it, every type of information ranging from violence to gore can be viewed by everyone, including children. Children are supposedly at the age whereby they learn and copy all the things they see around them without knowing what the things they are doing actually mean. Hence, it is bad if there were no limitations of information by the government. The media is supposed to be a tool to protect the young and weak-minded, to prevent riots (racial and religious), to decrease tension of all sorts, to handle sensitive issues and to protect national interests. However, there are two sides to a coin. The disadvantages of media is that there is no freedom of expression because of the limitations by the government, reporting is objective and selective, also, most media only shows what it wants to portray. Hence, it is often bias, depending on which side it is on.